The Better Germany in War Time: Being Some Facts Towards FellowshipPicton, Harold W. (Harold Williams)
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The Better Germany in War Time: Being Some Facts Towards Fellowship
Picton, Harold W. (Harold Williams)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals, charities, etc.; World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
There have been fresh evidences lately of the response from
Germany to our efforts here, and of the likeness between our
work and that of the Berlin Committee. The animating spirit is
evidently so much the same that a wife left behind in England
wrote to her repatriated husband in Germany, “Just write your
letter and send it to _St. Stephen’s House_ at Berlin, and
they’ll send it for you.” The italics are ours.
Dr. Rotten wrote March 8:
“Just a few lines to tell you that a second parcel from Berne
arrived to-day, containing the remainder of the reports about
your work, namely, 25 copies of your Fourth Report and 100
copies of “A Day at St. Stephen’s House.” We are much pleased to
make these vivid descriptions of your assistance to the Germans
in England accessible to so many, as our experience has taught
us that direct information has a much greater effect than our
own full or abbreviated translations. But we try again and again
with the latter, and at the present moment two different
sketches of our endeavours in England and Germany for mutual
help have been accepted by various papers, so we may hope to be
able to send you a copy before long. Grateful as ever, with
kindest greetings in the name of all.”
The same idea is carried further in a letter received by one of
our helpers from a personal friend in Germany:
“Your printed report which came into my hands a few days ago
has made me very happy. I was not surprised, but it only
strengthened my belief in you and in the good of humanity. What
you have done and are still doing brings nearer the goal that
now seems so far off—everlasting peace grounded in respect and
mutual understanding.”
From Dr. Rotten:
THE RELATIVES OF MEN IN RUHLEBEN.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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