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our organization was clearly based on inadequate
knowledge of actual conditions; probably this
explains why international collaboration is not always
as free of friction as is desirable. Of course, the same
reasoning can be applied to our attitude toward and
our understanding of Russian problems. It is
therefore desirable that representatives from other
countries be given the opportunity to visit Russia. It is
possible that such visits might induce us to revise
our opinions in certain respects, and remove mutual
distrust and suspicion.
Another episode during my Paris visit especially
pleased me. This was the opportunity I had of meeting
a great number of French women who had been,
prisoners in Ravensbrück concentration camp and
Who had been repatriated via Sweden. This meeting
provided marvelous proof of people’s ability to forget
that which was dark and tragic in their past. It was
evident that many of these women were still far from
complete recovery from the sufferings and starvation
they had undergone. Yet, there prevailed a happy,
even a gay atmosphere. They touched only upon the
brighter aspects of their days together behind barbed
wire, and it was in a joking spirit that they told
stories of the frightful days in Ravensbrück.
As I said, I have also memories from the Germany of
that autumn, a Germany where conditions were
rapidly becoming worse. On my way back from the
conference in Geneva in August, I was the guest of the
Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir Sholto Douglas.
The fact was that during the summer months we had
suspended our activities in the soup kitchens for
children, The English government had requested the
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