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of politicians that will male® peso© between nations. Dr. Z invited me 
to the raittagessen that the American Universities (alumni , maybe) pro- 
vide for Wiener scientists at pre-war prices. They get a good lunch 
there for a few kronen— less than a cent in American money. I did not 
take tin© to go. I do not set mixed up in politics (you remember how I 
was admonished not to) hut I hat© taken occasion to «ay call attention 
to the fact (when I am told how good w® have been to Austrians) that 
the help has come from people like our selves, people that work, notfrom 
the rich, not the ruling class, ; uarreling between nations is not due 
to the common people but to the moneyed ruling classes. In one of the 
'radical'' books I have the author makes the point that education has 
always been in the bontrol of the ruling class (they provide or handle 
the money) and necessarily takes a form loyal to that class, wherefore 
when a crisis comes the educated react according to their training. So 
we see the educated son of peasants siding with the lords. I thought 
of that the other day. There was another procession of "Arbeitsloser ' 
(unemployed ) to the Hathouse I had seen one from the museum windows 
one morning the first week I was here, men and women , a procession two 
or three blocks long. Dr. Keissler advised me not to work late as 
usual, but to go home, because there was to be a demonstration of 
Arbeitsloser that afternoon. I was interested to laarn what their 
ideas were, what they thought their parliament could do under the 
circumstances; my sympathies were with the arbeitsloser, and I think 
it is always wise to keep parliaments in mind of the people whose in- 
terests they are suppo sed to maintain a parliament . Keissler evidently 
thought I meant it otherwise— what ideas could arbeiters have, ray Ger- 
man isn't quite perfect, probably. He spoke contemptuously of them, he 
with his broken shoes , frayed , patched clothing, ancient celluloid col- 
lar, broken at the top, his unhealthy half-starved look, he, to whom I 
had sent relief last winter in answer to an appeal to a perfect stranger , 
