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21 June 1932
81 Harley Street, London
Dear Professor,
Many thanks for your full letter of 17th June. You were right in reproaching me for not having written to you about the Quarterly at an earlier date and I see it was a mistake on my part. Actually at the time I heard only that the Quarterly was being supported by Eitingon, Anna and Ferenczi, not by yourself, and you may be sure I lost no time in defending the interests of the JOURNAL. I wrote strong letters at once to Feigenbaum, Lewin, Zilboorg,1 Brill and Eitingon. There was no point in writing to Ferenczi, whose attitude about American affairs is apt to be somewhat vague, and I assumed Anna was in touch with Eitingon, acting as Secretary and President of the Association respectively. I am sorry to say I was not able to get any satisfaction from Eitingon either from correspondence or during my visit to Berlin. He will never see what he does not want to see. I still find it deeply shocking that the President of the Association should have given his support to the enterprise of a small coterie in their competition with the Official Organ of the Association without first consulting with the Editor of that organ; apart from his official position, I should have expected that much loyalty from him as a friend. Then a rumour reached me that they were printing one of your papers in the first issue and I at once wrote to you to find out if they were doing this without your consent.2
So much for the actual history of the events, but it is also true that there are deeper reasons which would have made me more disinclined to approach you immediately in such a matter, quite apart from the fact that at the time there did not seem to be any definite reason for doing so. These other reasons are a constitutional dislike, bred from schooldays, against referring to a senior authority difficulties and disputes with colleagues of one's own generation. It is in my nature to postpone doing this so long as is possible until I am compell