In 1930 Berg's marriage to New York university student Eleanor Kraus, the daughter of a New York silk merchant, was announced, although by November 1931 the relationship had ended [REF].
In October 1940 he was awarded £500 damages for slander after John Macadam suggested in a BBC broadcast that Berg would fight Eric Boon after "drawing his old-age pension" and "tottering along to Earl's Court", although the decision was overturned on appeal [REF].