Initiation and initiative : an exploration of the life and ideas of Dimitrije Mitrinović

THE ADLER SOCIETY 99

Indps 1 am proposing you to make yourself entirely independent. This would mean only that we shall mention no more your society as a neighbouring part of other Indps. societies.

In spite of this very earnest proposal which you probably understand and recognise, I send my best greetings to my old friends in your society if there are still any.

Awaiting your consent I am going to cancel the name of your society off the advertising page of my journal.**

By 1933, however, the Adler Society was reduced to little more than a shadow of its former self. In a lecture given to the Philosophical Section of the Society on October 30th 1928 Mitrinovic had maintained that “our aim is to become live and sincere members of a centre of European Culture at Gower Street.” He became increasingly concerned with developments in Europe, and the focus of his attention and energy was redirected from the Adler Society to a variety of new organisations and public initiatives with which he was associated throughout the 1930s.