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Vienna, October 27, 1918
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I know that you are a Hungarian patriot, and you have to expect some painful experiences in that regard. It seems that the Hungarians are submitting to the deception that they alone could evade the threatened diminution because they are especially loved or respected in the world outside, in a word, that they are “exceptions.”1 Hence the somewhat unseemly haste to dissolve their association with Austria and to turn down the alliance with Germany, even though German troops saved Hungary twice in this war; as well as their zeal to profess allegiance to the Entente.2 Disappointment will not be absent and will bring bad times along with it. All the deficiencies attached to the Hungarians as politicians are threatening to avenge themselves. Withdraw your libido from your fatherland in a timely fashion and shelter it in ΨA, or else you will have to feel uncomfortable.
The stifling tension persists here. It does seem, though, as if the disintegration will take place without explosions.
Nothing at all is happening with me. I am awaiting Rank's arrival, which,