Nov. 16^th 1938
PROF. SIGM. FREUD
20 MARESFIELD GARDENS.
LONDON. N.W.3.
TEL: HAMPSTEAD 2002.

To the Editor of „Time and Tide"

I came to Vienna as a
child of 4 years from a
small town in Moravia.
After 78 years of assiduonis
work I had to leave my
home, saw the Scientific So-
ciety I had founded, dissol-
ved, our institutions de-
stroyed, our printing Press
(„Verlag") taken over by
the invaders, the books I
had published confiscated
or reduced to [¿¿¿¿], my
children expelled from
their professions. Do'nt you
think you ought to re-
serve the columns of
your special member
for the utterances of
non-Jewish people less
personally involved
than myself?

In this connection my mind
gets hold of an old French
saying:

Le bruit est pour le fat,
la plainte est pour le sot;
L'honnête homme trompé
s'én va et ne dit mot.

I feel deeply affected
by the passage in your
letter acknowledging
„a certain growth of
anti-Semitism even in
this country." Ought this
present persecution
not rather give rise
to a wave of sympathy
– in this country?

Respectfully yours
Sigm. Freud

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Editorische Anmerkung:

[ "Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte pour le sot; L'honnête homme trompé s'éloigne et ne dit mot."
J. B. Sauvé de La Noue, La Coquette Corrigée, I, 3.]