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onto you so much? You must give it up and get over it if you want to be a decent
fellow. Second voice: You’re puny-minded and a Philistine for not daring to take
what a good-hearted destiny is offering you in the company and affection of this
good girl. It’s deplorable if you abandon her against her will for the sake of an in-
definite fate.
So, I myself don’t know what’s good and right. Both these voices are right, either
way, Katzenstein and Aunt
Minna.[1]
Is the voice of my conscience or the nagging
to blame for my otherwise so entirely unusual insecurity? I don’t know. In any case,
if it were in any way possible, I would want to kiss you, your
Albert
Best regards to Uncle Hans and Aunt
Minna,[2]
whose letter I received.
336. From Thomas Greenwood[1]
[London,] Oct. 10, 1924
[See documentary edition for English text.]
337. To the Secretariat of the League of Nations’
International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
[Leyden, 12 October
1924][1]
The Committee has commissioned the undersigned with the distribution of the
100,000 lire contributed by the Italian “Red Cross” among needy Russian intellec-
tuals presently outside of
Russia.[2]
In consultation with well-informed persons, we
have meanwhile disposed of that part of the sums which is supposed to reach Ger-
many and Holland. We have furthermore become cognizant that provision has al-
ready been made to some extent for Russian intellectuals in Czechoslovakia. Our
information regarding the other countries, particularly Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Po-
land, and France, will only be complete sometime later.
In summary, the grants approved up to now, after careful individual consider-
ation, are as follows:
1) Financial aid to (41) individual students of the “Russian Academic Association
in
Germany”[3]
2,490 marks