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I still have no news of my Italian friend a Professor of Literary Criticism of the University of Siena who left Italy three days ago to stay in the same apartment in low Manhattan were I have been in august and who has taken there is 5 years old son to visit the City and its attractions. The liens are busy and there is no answer. My pain and sorrow for New Yorkers is immense and unspeakable. When I recently visited the City in the last week of August, I though it was the most friendly, charming and lively place I had ever seen, with great dignity and humanity and I though that the media make injustice to it. I was with Ram at the Tribeca Grill in the vicinity of the twin towers and was pleasantly surprises of the way this international center of business had kept almost a provincial relaxed atmosphere, with people strolling in the street, talking to each other, helping foreigners, talking to them, even accompanying them on the very spot where they had to go, nothing like that I ever experienced in all the country that I have visited. I loved it and loved the American people's sense of hospitality and warmth. This is a tragedy of unprecedented proportion. My heart is in mourning for all the victim. Erminia