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7 November 1920
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
I got a letter from Forsyth today explaining his conduct by motives of opposition to you and your “autocratic” moods. I see he is lost for the society, not for the cause I hope and I will try to keep up friendly relations with him in order not to drive him into open opposition. But I can recognise that your position is a difficult one and that you ought more than ever avoid even the appearance of ambiguous dealings. If you will take my advise, bring the affair of the donations to a good end, explain to them, that the money they promised was devoted and spent not for the Press but for the shop, that this last has proved too expensive and therefore a failure, in London as well as in Vienna, as we too have resolved to give up our establishment (in the case of independence) and put us under the wings of a commissionary. After having paid the debts of this experiment, the rest