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In Defence of Learning Reprinted from PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY . 169 In Defence of Learning I 102 Paul Broda ESTHER SIMPSON: A CORRESPONDENCE 103 From 1942 to 1944 both ES and EB were in Cambridge, where they all to dissuade you; I'm only rather sad at the suffering that is bound to be remained close friends until ES returned to London in 1944 to run the Society in front of you, and is inevitable really, for you go back a different person for Visiting Scientists (SVS).2 Their friendship continued after EB's return from the one who came over. You have not only lost a few illusions but you to Austria in 1947 until his death in 1983. EB only visited Britain once, in have gained new knowledge. Theoretically this ought to be all to the good, 1948, and after that he and ES met on only one occasion, in Yugoslavia in but .... You see, what I'm afraid of is that you will find the 'irrational, 1959. EB did not return to the UK because he supposed, correctly as MI5 mystic, pre-bourgeois' outlook you mention still all too widespread, and in files show, that he would be refused entry or even be detained and possibly pI aces where you will think it should not be. You may find yourself called charged under the Official Secrets Act. ES may have suspected this, but never a 'traitor' by enthusiasts without your knowledge, experience and love of allowed herself to confront the issue directly, either in correspondence with truth as truth. All love, Tess. EB 01' in conversations with me, but she often suggested to hirn that he should 28.2.47. My own reaction is conditioned by factors you wouldn't yourself visit again. take into consideration. There is firstly the purely selfish element: I hate Instead, we have their many letters. The extracts given here relate to the to lose a friend, especially a friend like you. I know 'lose' is not the right foundation of the Academic Assistance Council, ES's beliefs, my father's expression, but there is the definite physical loss involved. Then there is memories much later of what her help had meant to hirn personally, and a mixed selfish-altruistic factor: I have the idea of your suffering, and it the state of the world. Other regular topics are their work, her musical seems to me that you are in for a good deal of suffering and bitter disap­ activities, the comings and goings of mutual friends including L. Kowarski, pointment. You think you are going back with few illusions, but I'm afraid J. Gueron, and O. R. Frisch, all of whom they knew from Cambridge days, you will find you still had some to lose, and it will be painful. That pain and my development. My parents had separated in 1940, and I stayed in I would have spared you, if I could. When you put the question What do Britain with my mother when EB returned to Austria. ES had contact with we live for? as you do, I can't answer; that is a religious question, and you me and could pass on my news to EB between my visits to hirn. Over give the only possible answer for me, as I'm 'religious' too. The question the years she documented with much pride how her proteges became suc­ arises whether your picture of the role you can and must play is right or cessftll and joined the British intellectual establishment. The emphasis in not; whatever the answer, I see you've got to try it out. By the way, it's this selection is in representing her own attitudes and achievements in her not fair to see only one alternative to going back and fulfilling the task you own words.3 have set yourself, that alternative being merely to exist as a 'full-time sci­ EB always intended to return to Austria after the war, whereas ES tried to entist'. I don't cast you for that role; you mention Frisch- it is all right for dissuade hirn: . hirn, because he never has had a social consciousness, as far as I can make 21.2.47. As a matter of fact, I rejoiced in your-'assimilation' is the wrong out. No, heaven knows that in this country we need more scientists with word-I can't think of the right one-your fitting in over here because an active social conscience. I think the material is there, but it's dormant when you first came I don't think you were prepared to envisage such a and the Sleeping Beauty needs to be roused; the atom bomb seems to have thing. I say I have rejoiced in it, but there is another side: it makes me hate made it turn over in its sleep, but it sleeps on, maybe a little uneasily. And it the idea of your going back to Austria more and more. I'm not trying at is our scientists over here who could be such a force, so much more so than in Aust.ria. And in Austria, I can only pray that you will have the opportu­ 2 For reasons of space, ES 's description of her work for the SVS and its frustrations have unfortunately nity of doing what you are setting out to do, that you will be in a position had to be omitted in the extracts published here. The SVS was founded in 1944 on the initiative of to do so. I'm so afraid that, apart from the tremendous forces of re action a number of refugee scientists. ES was its assistant secretary combining this with the secretaryship massed against you, political and ecclesiastical (same thing), you may not of the SPSL when the latter returned to London in 1951 (where it was based in the premises of the SVS until the latter's demise in 1966). For a history of the SVS, see R. W. Cooper, (ed.) Retrospective find the support where you most expect it. You have to try, I see that, but Sympathetic Ajfection.: A Tribute to the Academic Commun.ity (Leeds, 1996), pp. 119-69. I don't want to see you waste yourself. You have such a tremendous con­ 3 Readers who wish to know more about ES and her life shou ld consult the Brotherton Library of tribution to make to the world, Bert, I believe that-so I don't want you to the University of Leeds, which holds her extensive personal papers. See also the Introduction to this volume. squander it. There is a field here, and if things prove impossible in Austria, 104 Paul Broda ESTHER SIMPSON: A CORRESPONDENCE 105 you must come back here. 1'd like just to make this clear: I don't believe In 1950 EB was struggling in Austria. He had a research group, but any situation is in itself impossible, but it may be that what you can do best because of his communism he was denied an established post, and so had is to fire others rather than carry things out yourself; I don't know. But for to finance his group and his own support out of grants. Moreover, he was very God's sake, don't waste yourself. That's all. worried about the Cold War and the threat of nuclear conftict. He also had several personal difficulties, and had been refused entry into both France and In May 1947 EB left for Austria by way of Italy, where he married a Switzerland. The letter to which ES refers has not yet come to light. Her letter Yugoslav, Ina Jun, whom he had met before the war. She had been malTied is a strong statement of her own beliefs: before, and had a son, but both husband and son were murdered by the pro-Nazi Ustachi and she joined Tito's partisans. Through diplomatie con­ ES, 18.12.50. Bert, my dear, your letter was almost a farewell one. I refuse tacts, ES had facilitated a visit by EB to see her in Rome earlier in 1947. The to accept that. The world is crazy, and wicked, but there are still people in malTiage ended in 1952. it ready to try to bring sanity into high places. The most appalling thing ES 16.5.1947. I hope to goodness your food arrives safely in Vienna. A to me is the general apathy, which is a resigned acceptance as inevitable little while ago· Miss Ursell sent me a copy of a letter received by the Royal what is far from being so. Of course I get very impatient at the blunders Society from the staff of the Meteorological Institute in Vienna. It was and worse of the so-called 'West', but I wish to goodness I could be like a curious letter. They asked the Royal Society to send food parcels, as some I know and see everything quite simply as a pull of all-black against they were too poor to be able to buy on the black market, and pointed all-white, instead of a tug-of-war between various shade·s of dirty grey, out that there had been similar action at the end of the 1914 war on and how dirty!-on all sides. As I may have said before, the heads of the behalf of university people. The letter really makes curious reading; it leading diplomats of all the 'powers' need knocking together. If one puts gave me quite a jolt.
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