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Was my indignation fully justified? Supposing that I had been

living for many years in Berlin and had been asked, when war was imminent, to befriend some stranded English undergraduate, would I also have refused? I do not think so. When I replaced the receiver I found that my cheeks were burning with shame and rage. The look of bewildered misery upon the face of the young student was pitiful to see. I made other arrangements to secure that his last hours of liberty should not be wholly friendless and forlorn.