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6 January 1920
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
I had the first conversation on business with Rank this day. I agree with him on all points especially as regards the Congress. It is most important that the Americans gather round the new Journal, we should try to conciliate them and render our plans palatable to their taste.
I will struggle with you against Abraham, who is denouncing a congress at the Hague as impracticable and claims it for Berlin, where as you say, English and Americans are sure not to appear. But let us try everything to insure our success with the Western people. I think you ought to treat Brill well, who behaved very nicely in the affair of the contributions, you should propitiate even Tannenbaum and I propose; you should put on the cover of the Journal the words
“edited provisionally” by E. J.
although it may mean a sacrifice to you, in order to show them, that no compulsion is intended and all is left to the decision of the Congress. I