Thomas Mann an Overseas Press, New York

Lehnt es ab, einen Artikel über das Problem ›After Victory, what to do with Germany‹ für die englische und amerikanische Presse zu schreiben. Führt mehrere Gründe für seine Ablehnung an, unter aanderem: »If one recommended indulgence and mercy with a beaten Germany, one would run the risk to be put in the wrong […] If one advised harshness and relentlessness, perhaps the territorial partition of the Reich, one would, as a German writer who, even as a citizen of another country, intends to remain true to the German language, find oneself in an awkward position to the country of one’s birth.«