Christmas

in Zurich

by Rudolph Burkhardt

During my stay in Los Angeles my friends at ONE asked me if I could possibly tell their readers something about "Christmas in Zurich" or, even more specifically, about "Christmas at The Circle." There is nothing I would enjoy more, as our yearly Christmas Party at The Circle is for me, the outstanding social event of the whole year. In saying this, I feel convinced that I am speaking on behalf of very many of our Subscribers who share my own feeling about this Celebration.

In trying to give American readers of ONE an idea of what our Circle Christmas is like and what it means to us all, I am thinking of an "Edi-

torial Note" which appeared in the September issue 1958 of ONE and ran thus:

"We are too vividly acquainted with the experience of such European groups as have. attempted to cope with this method (i.e. of undertaking social events) to wish to undertake it ourselves. It is our feeling that this is an individual question, involving individual choice and individual taste far too intimately to be attempted group-wise."

I feel sure that my good friends on the staff of ONE will allow me to disagree with this statement. For a very simple reason. Social life, meetings, parties and similar events, in coun-

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