Mrs Miles's Diary by S. V. Partington

Author:S. V. Partington [Miles, Constance]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781471125591
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK

Friday, 10 January

The papers begin to be full of the difficulties of small businesses in the City with regard to providing roof-spotters. Hundreds of them have written to the British Legion hoping to secure ex-servicemen at £4 a week. But there are not nearly enough old soldiers to go round. Others have offered as much as £1 a night, to unemployed men with no firefighting qualifications. But the majority cannot afford even £4.

A heroic Pole, whose name should be written here, Henry Brun, chairman of the Association of Polish Merchants, and one of the leading business men of Poland, was tortured to death by the Gestapo after consistently refusing to sign an appeal for funds for the benefit of the Volksdeutsche of Warsaw. ‘There is no power in the world,’ he said, ‘which can make me ask my business colleagues to pay a ransom for the benefit of our German enemies.’

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