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Semmering
11 September 1925
Dear Friend,
So what I feared has happened. The Congress was a great strain on you, and I can only hope that your youth will soon get the better of the disturbance.
Many thanks for the trouble you took in compensating me for my absence by your detailed report. To me the only fully enjoyable thing was your pleasure at the appearance of my paper on the programme. I had not thought of it myself, it was a last-minute idea of my daughter's.
There are many other things I should rather have liked to discuss with you; in writing, differences stand out too luridly. For example, I think the Americans are quite worthless. Coriat is likeable and is, incidentally, not close to the New Yorkers, Jelliffe is very clever and capable, and not very scrupulous. I know P. Clark least well, and the others are not worth consideration. Their resistance against Rank's return is based on the pettiest motives, exactly like their attitude to lay analysis. Rank's latest visit to America is not a manic symptom; there are several important real reasons for it, and I had advised him very definitely to go. Whether I was right will only appear later.
The business of the film, now happily solved, has left me with an unpleasant aftertaste. Imagine what sort of impression it makes when first one, then another, resigns over such a worthless affair. I judge Sachs much more strictly and Bernfeld and Storfer much more mildly than you, and would like to seek the protection of those two against your harshness. Storfer has withdrawn his resignation, he would have been irreplaceable. You cannot maintain that he is to blame for the embarrassments of the Verlag. Like everyone else, he has his foibles, and they call for tolerance. In all these years I have never heard anything bad about Bernfeld.
I do not want to be a Cato, but I do not like the victrix causa1 of the Ufa. I only hope that Sachs, who is pleading its cause more and more, does not try again to enlist me for it. I should have