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Dear Friends,
We are now faced with the task of continuing our lives without Karl and we all know what that means.2
My being late with this Rundbrief enables me to answer the important letter from Max which came this morning. Sándor and I will be as surprised at its contents as we were at the unexpected ease with which Max had provided a solution in Berlin. However, he knows himself best and if Professor also agrees after a thorough discussion there is no more to be said except to express our disappointment. We had hoped that he would be able to keep the breach open at least for two or three years until some better solution could be provided than is at the moment possible. The three Berlin names he suggests seems the best now available, but it is plain that Simmel's3 lack of critical capacity will in spite of his other virtues mean that he falls below the average standard for such a position. Still, I suppose members will serve better under him than under Radó and also they could hardly elect a foreigner as President of their Society.
I do not know if any of you feel an urgent need to extend the Committee further at present. I do not myself, but there are several names with which I should agree if necessary: Van Ophuijsen, Radó, James Glover, and perhaps Mrs. Rivière.4
The Press campaign against us which was dying down before Christmas has unexpectedly taken once more an active form. The occasion for this was a suicide which a medical witness at the inquest ascribed to psycho-analytic treatment. A torrent of abuse at once poured forth. The psycho-analyst in question, Dr. Culpin5, wrote a letter to the »Times« and to the »British Medical Journal«, the official organ of the British Medical