Friday July 11.

Too much too report. Sunday visit at Mauer. Wolfgang Mehner & wife did not please me much, Helmut did & I shall see him again. Very bright, deeply interested in many things & full of initiative. Complaints about Mimi who does not write & sends few parcels. I don’t understand it. The house is not in bad condition, the garden wild but still fine. Communists are quartered in the upper floor. Mi’s room looks quite unchanged. A strange thing for me to be there.

Monday I saw Wendts; they were nice; a little shy. They have been good friends for my family. Last winter they brought at least 300 Kilo coal and coke!

Tuesday, lunch with Dreiman at the Bristol ($ .90). Then mil. Permit Office; permit for Frankf. arrived, facilities authorized. I can go by mil. train or plane. I can also stay a little longer here. I think I shall leave 2 weeks from monday by plane. Then begins a lot of movement for me. The people were very nice - . At the PX some purchases – Mother is much better, but it varies a good deal. Her mind is wonderful.

Lunch with Loewy & 2 others from the Legal. Div. at Illy’s. He is nice but not very entertaining. Not surprising: his parents were murdered by the Nazis. But he seems to have no revenge desire. This is a remarkable fact. – Then I saw Dr. Klausberger of the ÖV. She is poorly informed even about the local potential authors for her paper. Also dull & I cannot see that she will make a good paper of it.

I visited Schams whose apartment has much improved. He has a really excellent library but not too modern. I gave him the second copy of the th. of games; he will never read it wholly but it is more in memory of older times. He teaches at the Tech. H. & may sometimes find a student, just as he was the first one to show me Pareto, Walras & others when he still lived in the Burg. She is much the same.

Then I went to Ladenburgs. She is Pünkösdy´s daughter, a friend of Lisl Kallina etc. Dreiman came & a young singer from the Opera…

A very nice party, good food & wine. Some debate about the $ - S ratio & worries on their part that I think it to be crazy.

At 9h I went by jeep to Prack (Herbert), Dir. of the Nationalbank, to Sievering where people gathered in hon. of M. Frère. 2 Kienböck, 2 Dobretsberger, 2 (young) Spitzmüller & a Baroness Kruse. D. wants to go back to Kairo! Just nobody wants to stay. He talked quite reasonably spoke good french but he is not a good economist, judging from his last book & others. K. was worried about Rizzis plans. I should speak with him. If only I would stay etc. Frère is also opposed. K. fears that the US may sometime drop Austria, feeling that Germany is so much more important to her. This is possible, but would only happen in a tremendous crisis, one much bigger than the present one. It would mean Russ. penetration all the way to Switzerland & into Italy. – The gen. situation is awful. Now CSK has withdrawn, on Russ. orders, the acceptance to the Paris Conference! At the same time the Russians here complain that Am. aid to Austria violates Austrian sovereignty! Why all this? Frère does not expect the Paris conference to turn into a success; it is not well prepared & the time is not for large proposals (I suggested a Western tariff union e.g.). The world is again in quick motion & we shall tumble to many more crises until war comes.

Here, fear of war is very strong. Many people again disperse their belongings, move towards the western provinces etc. These are not only Nazis. The gen. conditions are awful. Everything is lacking, food is bad & little, no real progress, &, especially no hope. How nice Schönbrunn, but what an overhead. What a machinery here with little behind it. If I were living here I would only want to get away in spite of some of the charm of Hietzing & other parts etc. It is a sad story & even now I get weary. Here is perhaps one of those econ. situations where there may be no solutions (while economists naively think that every econ. problem has a solution ( & that they even know it, of course!)).

Yesterday went to Dr Rudolf Gödel (Lerchenfelderstr. 81); his mother & Adele where there too. R. is a very nice & charming man 45; much like his brother. Excellent taste, fine library. We got along well with each other. The mother is nice too. She asked, of course, why her son did not come etc. They all did not really understand who Kurt really is. K. never told them, in Vienna he is largely unknown & it pleased them greatly to hear from me. K. apparently is much attached to me, judging from his letters to his mother & brothers. His wife has no recent news. Rudolf is X ray specialist. He wonders whether he should emigrate. He is unmarried. We want to meet again; I would like to see him alone. I must think about his emigration problem. He should go to the US & teach & then take his exams again. Cells & living tissues under radiation etc, enormously important topics.

I then saw Gerhart Haberler & his wife.