The Archive · 1938

A London Letter

London, Oct. 1.

Forty households in and around Jour village just outside London have been desolated by the sudden removal of half as many more Austrian maids, ordered back to their country. This brings the war crisis home {o tone with real seriousness. Whether the maids will be allowed back here now that peace is assured is not yet known. But they will have to have their passages paid. Most of them had practically "nothing left after buying their tickets to Austria, "One fof the sights of London carly this week were the crowds of passage Jseekers surging round the German tourist agencies, On the other hand, many refugees' from Nazi persecution came forward to volunteer their services to England it war broke out.

There is one group of men whose. Joy, at the dispersal of War clouds is" tinged with faint regret, "These fare the War Office designers who fad been charged. with "me grave uty ct planetng a waite forte aten Calitons of tin Ausiiery Terror) Service and had actualy Tosseeded. in pleasing everybody, 'Bie of having to itor had ana Slockings of lise thread, The' skit iui from ibe ground cars de-Sided on "this tens, there Isa snappy jacket with patch pockets, hak belt and brass buttons! und 2 cap exactly" mited to the prevailing the For Gucen" Alesanara" coitures, But now weare noi to weer it our only souvenis of ihe erie being fie' mane Of the "eagerness with Taide worse: ai over tan court newared the call for volunteer i only necesenry to say that they foled' up''in thoumnds, aviator, Totals despatch riers, "mute irl guided clerical helpers, and liable army. of hitters and bandage Toller If siier was not impressed the fact that, we meant Business, wea net our tout

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