Notes

THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, Vol. 94, March 1938, contains the following comment on Professor Sigmund Freud, quoted here in full: 'We have for a long time witnessed in silence the indignities and cruelties inflicted on men and women and their families, some of them our colleagues and friends, many of them distinguished contributors to the fine culture that was Germany's. We have been silent because we well knew that to express our feelings through vehement protest or condemnation would be to the disadvantage of those for whom we would speak. It is not that an assault on a home is unique. It is all too common; but a special poignancy is added to our distress at this time for it is reported that the home of Professor Sigmund Freud has been invaded, his passports taken, his personal effects disturbed. The following message signed by the President of the Association has been sent through our Secretary of State to the German Foreign Office: Speaking in the name of American psychiatry for 2000 American psychiatrists I voice our earnest hope that everything possible be done to protect Professor Sigmund Freud of Vienna from disturbance. Professor Freud, who has contributed so magnificently to medicine and to the welfare of humanity, is a sick old man. His hundreds of friends in America are deeply concerned about him, beg that every consideration be given him and that his home be kept peaceful.—R.M.C.'