Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Prologue and introduction
- 1 Background and early years, 1897–1919
- 2 Vienna: research, engagement and marriage, 1919–1923
- 3 England and the London School of Economics, 1923–1937
- 4 Cambridge, 1937–1939: the Whewell Chair
- 5 The war years, Part I: September 1939–January 1941
- 6 The war years, Part II: February 1941–March 1942
- 7 The war years, Part III: April 1942–December 1944
- 8 Human rights
- 9 The years of practice, 1945–1950
- 10 1950–1954
- 11 The International Court of Justice, 1955–1960
- Epilogue: the man
- Appendix 1 The published writings of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Appendix 2 Biographical and academic writings on Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Appendix 3 Obituaries of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Appendix 4 Chronology of significant events in the life of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Index
7 - The war years, Part III: April 1942–December 1944
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Prologue and introduction
- 1 Background and early years, 1897–1919
- 2 Vienna: research, engagement and marriage, 1919–1923
- 3 England and the London School of Economics, 1923–1937
- 4 Cambridge, 1937–1939: the Whewell Chair
- 5 The war years, Part I: September 1939–January 1941
- 6 The war years, Part II: February 1941–March 1942
- 7 The war years, Part III: April 1942–December 1944
- 8 Human rights
- 9 The years of practice, 1945–1950
- 10 1950–1954
- 11 The International Court of Justice, 1955–1960
- Epilogue: the man
- Appendix 1 The published writings of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Appendix 2 Biographical and academic writings on Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Appendix 3 Obituaries of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Appendix 4 Chronology of significant events in the life of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Index
Summary
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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- The Life of Hersch Lauterpacht , pp. 191 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010