J. P. HAMILIUS Jr. Differdange, November 13, 1952 Professor of Business & Economics 23, |RUE[DU STADION, 23 DIFFERDANGE (LUXEMBOURG) PHONE 82-69 Professor Ludwig von Mises e W York Dear Professor von Mises: More than a week ago I sent you a copy of the first articles I ever wrote for genuine liberalism. Those in " Le Libé- ral are written more passionately than those of " l'écho de l'indus- trie this owing to the fact that I could not avoid helping the few courageous men of the liberal-conservative party of Luxembourg who endea your firmly to gain back the positions they lost after the war as a resu sult of the losses they suffered from nazism. I am glad to let you know that I have transla- ted in French already more than two third of " Planned Chaos ". As de Médicis is planning a new edition of your " Le Socialisme ", I have ente- red into connection with them. As to the German translation, I am sorry to in- form you that I shall not be able to finish it for the stipulated date. You could have the 25 pages I already have translated if you intended to entrust the job to someone else. I am overloaded with work for Mrs. Rose Wilder Lane -- many changes and re-changes had to be made in the work I do on her book and so do not see when I shall be again in a position to continue. I regret so much, the more as: 1/ I intended to suggest you to do all to edit soon your " Socialism " in German in order to permit a reaction against the German social-democrats who are (agining more and more power -- see the last results of elections in Rheinland Westfalen, last week -- 2/ It will look like as if I forsook you just in this moment where some weeks ago I was informed that the American Foundation who - as Mrs. Lane had told me last year-would subsidize the European translations of If Planned Chaos" T en l'occurence, the William Volker Fund, won't do anything. In their letter of July, I think, they told me they couldn't give any assistance for these translations. Later I heard from another source that they cannot owing to different circumstances. I wanted to tell you all this as confidential. When in June it was after I had received your letter of June 3, Mrs. Lane told me for the first time that it was the Volker Fund Trustees who would subsidize her " The Discovery of Freedom and your " Planned Chaos ", I made up my mind to tell them that I was advancing well, especially with Mrs. Lane's book. They answered they couldn't do anything for these three translations now. I did not intend to disturb you in your vacation and so waited till now. Despite this I did not give up my enterprise : I have contacted a Luxembourg editor for Mrs. Lane's book and shall see him later for yours too. It's one of the most up to date firms on the Continent; they have edited among others Chunchill's mémoires. The firm has it's own " Verlag " in Germany and so