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7 - The war years, Part III: April 1942–December 1944

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2011

Elihu Lauterpacht
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Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge
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Hersch having returned to England, he wrote to Rachel on 1 April 1942:

I wrote yesterday a long letter to the boy, but to-day is Passover eve and, as I am sure you will be thinking a great deal of your husband, it gives me pleasure to write this letter to send you my love and all my warm wishes.

I have now been here for a week and I have done quite useful work – including the writing of immeasurable letters and of a long report to Sir Stephen. I will now take two days off and then settle down to the Digest, to lectures, and to more serious work. I am so happy that this nightmare has passed and I am grateful that I escaped many a danger.

I received to-day permission to send you the allowed sum of money retrospectively from 1 January. I went to the bank and arranged that you will receive, through a bank, £78, which means about 310 dollars. This is for the first two quarters. The next installment of 156 dollars will follow about 1 July. Until then, although you may take all precautionary steps, you must do nothing definitive either about the apartment or about your return. I was extremely grateful that there was no necessity for you to go by boat in March. It would have been a terrific risk. I will discuss the whole thing slowly with Turner and others. I asked the Bank Manager to-day and he told me that there is no movement for any large scale return. […]

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Print publication year: 2010

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