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Correspondence from Martha Küntzel to Gerald Yorke
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14 May 1932
Had just a short note from Bill [Bertha Busch] . . . These few words of Bill are so terrifying that I sit down at once to ask you, whether there is really, really no way out of the threatening catastrophe that you can go! Bill says that you did not hold to your promise. Now I don't know, of course, what you promised. But if so, for God's sake, stick to it and make it true!
There is no help from any other side. My last reserve is gone, there are 16 Marks left at the Bank! You have connections. It is your life-long happiness that is at stake, if you do not turn over every stone and look for help in every place, and these two find life impossible, and the Great Work is shattered for long years! These are terrible responsibilities, that demand your utmost force to meet them. Better give one's last penny for the Great Work and go as a beggar than leave the least little thing undone in a crises like this.
Everything is at stake! Every personal wish must go hang at such a moment! We belong to the Great Work with all we have and all we are. Our personalities do not matter, but what we do! What use we make of them. This is the only thing that counts.
Dear Gerald, I beg of you, make a supreme effort, think of this task as THE task of your life! You will never have a happy moment in all your life if you fail to risk the last.
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