JEAN-PIERRE HAMILIUS July 17, 1963. 127, RUE J.P. MICHELS ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE LUXEMBOURG Dear Professor vom Mises: Thank you so much for your kind letter of July 11. My operation has been a great success indeed. I am the more happy as at Paris I was told that I should been quite likely to have been dead in about two years. What a strange thing: and this all owing to the fact that my doctor here had not been seeing the dangerous situation I had already been laboring with for some years. Providence that seems sometimes to side also with the cause of genuine liberalism has, as concerns your servant, been rather generous with me: the Paris professors told me that owing to the operation my bronchitisses will disappear too. I must confess that I never received your letter of April 22. The operation wich was done in another hospital took place on April 23, but all the other letters from my US friends had been forwarded to the Hospital St. Joseph. Having spent about two months in a Vienna Hospital when, as a Beutedeutscher " or 11 Mussdeutscher 11 ( as Luxembourgers had been called so often by the Nazis) I had been brought there from Saloniki, I am glad to re- port, without flattering, that I immediately liked the"Wiener genre 11 and so shall be doubly glad to be able to return to Austria as a result of the Mont Pélerin Society meeting. Professor Jewkes had been asking me in October if I would not be prepared to act as assistant secretary general of the Society. But I had to decline then his offer owing to the fact that I was overworked and , second, as my health happened to be already quite bad then. Looking forward to the pleasure of meeting you and your charming wife in Vienna or at the Semmering, I beg to remain with our heartiest regards and compliments to Mistress Von Mises, Cordially yours, P. S. : I am not yet permitted to do much of typewriting. As to autodriving, I am glad to be able to rely on my wife who will forward the whole family to Switzerland next week where we shall spent near Locarno several weeks of, let us hope, of fine weather and sound air.