J. P. HAMILIUS Jr. Differdange, 13. 3. 1952 Professor of Business & Economics 23, RUE DU STADION, 23 DIFFERDANGE (LUXEMBOURG) PHONE 82-69 Dear Professor von Mises, Many thanks for your letter of the 4th inst. and the valuable information it gave me. Many thanks for the genuine liberal 11 too. I shall do all to deserve this name for the next years. In my last letter I said that I had books of Ropke and Hayek too, but forgot to mention that as regards the first, he does not always advocate genuine liberalism, for instance in his 11 Gesellschaftskrisis der Gegenwart 11 As for the second - I did not yet read his books - Mrs. Lane wrote me last week that he too did not always ask for true lib. I am grateful to Professor Hayek for his article in the last number of 11 the owl ", where he suggested that liberals throughout the world ought to co-operate more. This indu- ced me to write finally to you and to him. I am still waiting for his answer; I asked him to inform me about the coming meetings of liberal economists etc in Europe. I shall feel much obliged for all the in- formation you can give me on genuine liberals of Europe and on eventual of their conferences. Are there still true liberals in France, Germany, Switzerland etc beside Bertrand de Jouvenel and J. Rueff ? Thanks for your translation rights. Owing to a lot of work I cannot promise immediately to have done with the French and German translation for July 1, 1953. I shall inform you in two weeks or so. Then I see how I advance with the German version of Mrs. Lane's 11 THE DISCOVERY OF FREEDOM ". I already translated 2 pages in German, to see how I should advance with PLANNED CHAOS and so am likely to do both versions for the stipulated delay ! - As to point 2, I agree. I undertake the work only to help propa- gate genuine liberalism in Europe. I shall keep the money, I make of it, to constitute a fund for my travel expenses, once I am in a position to come to the States. and exchange ideas with U. S. liber rals. I plan to start in 5 years with my book 11 Qu'est ce que le libéralisme ". I shall feel free to ask you from time to time for informations. - I shall first gather suffici- ent material. Here my roughly sketched plan: I shall examine the problem from the political ( perhaps philosophical too ), economi- cal and moral point of view. I sometimes hesitate to think of my enterprise, because many if not most of the ideas I shall have to dvelop, have already been given by someone else. That would take a little the personal character of the work. Perhaps I am wrongand am still too much in the 11 état d'esprit " of a student working on