Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Dramatis Personae
- Dedication
- Prologue
- 1 Remembrance of Things Past; Hampstead Man Among ‘The Modernists’
- 2 National Planning for the Future and the Arrival of Walter Gropius
- 3 1935: ‘Art crystallises the emotions of an age.’ Musicology and the Art of Espionage
- 4 Arnold Deutsch, Kim Philby and Austro-Marxism
- 5 The Isobar, Half-Hundred Club and the Arrival of Sonya
- 6 The Plot Thickens: Jurgen Kuczynski, Agatha Christie and Colletts Bookshop
- 7 Refugees, The Kuczynski Network, Churchill and Operation Barbarossa
- 8 Klaus Fuchs, Rothstein once more, and Charles Brasch
- 9 Vere Gordon Childe
- 10 The New Statesman, Ho Chi Minh and the End of an Era
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Refugees, The Kuczynski Network, Churchill and Operation Barbarossa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Dramatis Personae
- Dedication
- Prologue
- 1 Remembrance of Things Past; Hampstead Man Among ‘The Modernists’
- 2 National Planning for the Future and the Arrival of Walter Gropius
- 3 1935: ‘Art crystallises the emotions of an age.’ Musicology and the Art of Espionage
- 4 Arnold Deutsch, Kim Philby and Austro-Marxism
- 5 The Isobar, Half-Hundred Club and the Arrival of Sonya
- 6 The Plot Thickens: Jurgen Kuczynski, Agatha Christie and Colletts Bookshop
- 7 Refugees, The Kuczynski Network, Churchill and Operation Barbarossa
- 8 Klaus Fuchs, Rothstein once more, and Charles Brasch
- 9 Vere Gordon Childe
- 10 The New Statesman, Ho Chi Minh and the End of an Era
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Ever since the departure of Gropius, Breuer and Moholy-Nagy for the United States in 1937, Jack Pritchard had continued to provide accommodation for refugees from Fascism by letting them occupy empty flats between lets, free of charge. His efforts on their behalf were tireless; making introductions, securing employment and, once the war had begun, writing to the chairman of the tribunal in support of their applications for exemption from internment as ‘enemy aliens’. Those refugees who were fortunate enough to enjoy the hospitality of Lawn Road Flats were, like the Kuczynskis, in the main, highly-educated left-wing Jews. One such refugee, Dr Kurt Rothfels, a judge in Germany, had fled in the clothes he stood up in; Pritchard went to great lengths to help him settle in England. On 12 January 1939 he wrote to a solicitor friend of his, Fredrick Graham Maw, a director of Isokon, asking him to spare Dr Rothfels ‘a few minutes’ to see what could be done for him. ‘I understand,’ he wrote, ‘that it is doubtful if his legal qualities will be of much use here, but he has turned out to be an exceedingly nice man, clearly reliable, trust-worthy, and I understand that he is prepared to do anything.’ He also wrote to Robert Furneaux Jordan, President of the Architects' Czech Refugee Relief Fund, with a similar request.
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- The Lawn Road FlatsSpies, Writers and Artists, pp. 152 - 170Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014