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364F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
1 December 1919
Dear Friend,
I do not turn a deaf ear to the weight of your arguments against Holland and in favour of Berlin, and I am actually afraid that they may
turn the scale, but I must confess that to me there is something unsatisfactory about such a congress. Also I do not know whether it will really be possible to get the British and Americans to come to Berlin next autumn. Hostile prejudice is indeed stronger than you suppose. In any case Rank, who is now in The Hague and is travelling to London tomorrow with Emden and Ophuijsen, will be coming to see you in the course of this month, and he will give you Jones's attitude in the matter; and what the two of you then decide will be acceptable to all of us here. I am almost of the opinion that with 31/3 crowns to the mark either journey will be just as difficult to most of the Viennese.
Your proposal to resuscitate the Jahrbuch will be carefully considered and should have a place in your discussions with Rank. For the time being I feel that the difficulties outweigh the demand. Because of the tremendous costs of printing, the Verlag already feels the maintenance of two journals a serious burden. Moreover, a third publication would be restricted to the purely Ψα public, which does not have much buying power. Deuticke might be persuaded to revive the Jahrbuch, but I am afraid that the material produced by us in the course of a year might not be sufficient to keep it going. We do not exactly have an abundance of material even for the . A far deeper interest by a much wider circle would be necessary to create a real demand for the Jahrbuch. Also what England (and America) produce is henceforward to be diverted to the English Journal of Ψα.1
The papers you announce will be given the usual welcome! It is astonishing how much work you are still able to do in a situation in which, as I am well aware myself, all one's energy is required to maintain one's economic level.
I now have all