VILLA KENWIN
BURIER S/LA TOUR
VEVEY

Téléphone: Burier 5.29.27

8th June 1940

Dear Buddy,

I enclose a note on the Brecht radio play, in my quality
as Swiss correspondent, naturally for you to decide whether you want
to accept it or not.

I sent you enough Adrienne for one number anyhow. No mail
again for a week, it makes life very complicated.

I am so angry after reading Henderson's the Failure of a
Mission that I contemplate an article. It was the loudest betrayal
of anything England ever stood for, since we lost the American colonies.
I dont blame the poor wretch himself so much, he says honestly that he
was a fascist and liked the German bullies, BUT the negotiations to
suppress the freedom of the press in England and to give loans to
Germany in 1938-9, are unbelievable. If you can borrow from
a library, read it.

Also - do you know anyone at the Minis. of inf. At
least I suppose they are responsible. We - we, the bulwarks of
Albion for the last twenty years, are being deluged by British
propaganda (!!!!) Commonly it comes to all the colony that has died
or left during the last five years and this is a waste of paper or
to the most extraordinary people. Also it features on date of
May 26 the affecting trust ofort in Gamelin with pictures! If
you happen to see my girl friend or can tell her, say that I am
so stunned by suppressed fury that life may be impossible. Surely
we have journalists in England, I know we have, I've always felt that
they were as good as any in the world but miserably handicapped ( see
Failure of a Mission.) I cannot see why I should be explained
the glories of Albion, I know them backwards, and you cant show
booklets about Gamelin with captions in Portugese to friends here.
Cannot Albion be persuaded to let a journalist deal with a paper,
if she must waste newsprint in this fashion.

Life, is very, very difficult. The Swiss papers
slightly more optimistic but have gloomy accounts of the immense
German reserves. Rumors reach me Osbert is, after all, in
Italy.

Barks and greetings,

c/o Coutts Bank,
440 Strand.
London. W.C.
England.
9th May.

Dear Robert,

An extremely nasty and unpleasant article about my affairs and my family was circulated throughout the States under the full signature of William Bird. Knowing of your close acquaintanceship for years it would seem to me that Mr Bird could have left private matters of your own and mine untouched

in print. But as you have been with him constantly you have evidently not only condoned but possibly even have been back of the affair. And such being the case I immediately requested my family and they agreed, to send you no further money.

I always tried to further your work in every way and I shall do what I can for your published work. I don't think however that much obligation is with me in any other respect. About the Ulysses, won't you write Bumpus direct as they constantly have people going to Paris. And I do not know anyone at the moment likely to be stopping there.

I hope your book goes well and that it will soon be coming out.

Yours,