The Trespassers (2011)
“In all the long years of their marriage, he had never had a personal secret from Christa, and he felt distaste for the burden of it. But he did not waver about keeping it.
She knew everything else. He read her his letters to Ramsey-Smithe, to Cresselin, to colleagues in Belgium and Holland, and then as their answers came, he read those, translating loosely so that the nuances of discouragement did not come through too clearly. But there was no way to conceal the fact that permanent settlement in Europe looked impossible for them.
Hewlett Ramsey-Smithe replied at once, eager to help, and personally angry and ashamed over the medical situation in England. He wrote that during the very week of the Evian meeting, the British Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hare, was waited on by groups from the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Surgeons, making official protests against allowing in any more refugee physicians or surgeons. A few days later, in the House of Commons, the strong...est demands for such restrictions were made again; the press quoted certain leading doctors as threatening to organize a national “stay in”MoreLess
She knew everything else. He read her his letters to Ramsey-Smithe, to Cresselin, to colleagues in Belgium and Holland, and then as their answers came, he read those, translating loosely so that the nuances of discouragement did not come through too clearly. But there was no way to conceal the fact that permanent settlement in Europe looked impossible for them.
Hewlett Ramsey-Smithe replied at once, eager to help, and personally angry and ashamed over the medical situation in England. He wrote that during the very week of the Evian meeting, the British Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hare, was waited on by groups from the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Surgeons, making official protests against allowing in any more refugee physicians or surgeons. A few days later, in the House of Commons, the strong...est demands for such restrictions were made again; the press quoted certain leading doctors as threatening to organize a national “stay in”MoreLess
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