[Draft] 
[London, beginning of June 1893] 
Dear Sir, 

I regret that I am unable to comply with your request. *'° 

In the first place, it so happens that my party comrades in Germany are 
conducting an election campaign against, among others, anti-Semitic 
candidates, *!’ which means that at this juncture party interests preclude my 
expressing an impartial opinion about anti-Semitism. 

In the second place, I believe that my party comrades in Vienna and in 
Austria generally would never forgive me were I to allow myself to be 
interviewed for the Deutsche Zeitung. 

I remain, Sir, etc.