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Budapest, November 20, 1919
Dear Professor,
After the beautiful days in Vienna—despite all the calamities I had to learn of there, they were still the most beautiful of the year gone by—I began compulsory service here on the day after our arrival. Only at half steam, to be sure. Of the ten patients expected, only four wholes and two halves have reported so far. So I had time in the afternoons to occupy myself with the biological works by Schaxel and Lipschütz;1 I already sent the review of the former to Rank by way of Toni; I am enclosing here the one of the latter. I hope to have found the tone which expresses our superiority in the face of the new findings, but which at the same time shows a willingness to meet halfway; approximately the way we came to an agreement about this at one of our nice Thursday meetings.—Now it's still the yearly report's2 turn—but then I won't have an excuse anymore not to write my own biological work.3
You learn from the newspapers just as much about the political conditions in Budapest as we do. From my own observation I can add that the anti-Semitic terror rages on indefatigably; they won't allow Jewish auditors into the university, harass Jews wherever possible. The coalition government (if it comes into being) could bring a certain amelioration of these conditions, although the elections in France, the conditions in Germany, etc. make it probable that a great world reaction will set in. Our Forsyth's hopes for social progress will, I fear, not be fulfilled.
Coming back to the Vienna vacation (it is certainly the nicest thing to think of our scientific and amicable relations), I must affirm that they will remain unforgettable to me in many respects. In the few hours that were