| Description | Written from the Department of Natural Philosophy, The University, Drummond Street, Edinburgh
' Thank you so much for your letter. Furth will apply for the position advertized in 'Nature'. Even such a small position is better than depending on a stipend.
Your complaint about the slowliness of the offices even in urgent matters explains the general situation. People begin to understand the danger of the German efficiency, and that we all are lost if not soon a change of government will come. I shall listen in at 6 o'clock for the News, and I wonder whether a change is announced already to-day. i do not expect it, as the average conservative citizen believes in the ruling men in the same mysterious way as the Germans believe in Hitler - even more mysterious as Hitler is successful whereas the use of this expression for the British government seems to me "unjustified". I am much more worried about the general situation, and I sleep very badly. But in spite of it our work is going on quite satisfactorily. - I congratulate you to the invitation to USA. I never get invitations to America, people do not like me there, or my kind of physics. But if I had such an invitation I doubt whether I would go, for I should hate the crossing in war time. We have taken a cottage in the Lake District, together with Pryce's and Divers, for the time between Aug 15 and Sept. 15. I hope the situation will allow us to go. Remember me to your wife.
Kind regards. ' |