You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
Budapest, January 24, 1926
Dear Professor,
It was extremely painful for me to hear that you weren't feeling well recently, and even had to take to your bed. But I confidently hope that since then not only the illness, but also the conditions that followed it, along with the bad mood, are things of the past.
I don't know about any “annoying” things that are being planned for your birthday. If you understand by that the plan for a festive gathering in Vienna, and if this is so repugnant to you, then I will gladly do what I can to prevent it. I will take the first steps to do so at the same time as I send off this letter. Nothing would be more nonsensical than to mar your birthday with honors which are disagreeable to you. I am firmly convinced that I will succeed in suppressing these well-intended but obviously inappropriate manifestations, so that you can at least look forward to this day without particular cares.
I agree completely, after the fact, with the solution of the Berlin presidency, which was arrived at by Eitingon and approved by you. It cannot be determined for the time being whether this solution is definitive or provisional. It is possible that the young Berliners, in marshaling all their powers, which have also proved themselves to date, will be capable of maintaining the viability of the Berlin center. The election of persons is, in any event, a fortunate one.
Of the Anatole France books I have read only “Anatole France en pantouffles,”1 the content of which surprised me greatly. The amorality which