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21 April 1932
81 Harley Street, London
Dear Professor,
You may be sure that the impressive communication you have sent round to the various Presidents will receive all the attention it deserves. My wife and I are translating it. I am circularising a copy of it to all our members so as to give them time to reflect on it before we discuss it at the next Meeting.1
On the general principle of maintaining the Verlag if possible I think there will be unanimous agreement, but the discussion will begin over the question how. In order to tackle this it will be essential to have some concrete details of the sums of money necessary, both at the moment and in the future. I had already written to Eitingon on this point and am sending him another urgent message.
It is not easy to be optimistic over any matter involving the raising of funds during the present terrible times. You know better than I do how bad things are in Austria, and now it is the turn of the English to be the poor cousins—since the currency relationship is the reverse of what it was ten years ago. Everyone here is having great difficulty in dealing with the immediate necessities of life. One is accustomed to look to America, but all that I hear from there is that the situation is terribly bad, with no immediate prospect of betterment, and in addition the economic depression has had a profounder psychological effect in producing apprehension there than in older countries better fortified to cope with misfortune. My chief hope is that Brill may know of some rich man who could solve the problem.
I am entirely in agreement with your suggestion that the International Association should take over as much responsibility as it can in this matter, with of course the proviso that they would exercise some control to secure a more efficient working than has previously been possible. In this direction I had already made the suggestion to Eitingon that in the worst case the Association could acquire the rights and responsibiliti