Volume 48, Number 5 · March 29, 2001
The Remains of der Tag
By Neal Ascherson
Whitehall and the Jews 1933–1948: British Immigration Policyand the Holocaust
Louise London
Cambridge University Press, 313 pp.
Farewell Leicester Square
Betty Miller
London: Persephone Books, 309 pp., £10.00
Could a Jew become an English butler? Or was this, perhaps, one of those mysteries in which training could never be a substitute for the right genetic stuff? As fugitives from Nazi Germany pressed into British consulates all over Europe during the Thirties, passport clerks challenged them to show talents which made them worthy of a visa to the Sceptred Isle. On such fatuities, human lives could depend.
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