 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
At Christmas time in 1914, by Ottoline's advice, I found a way of making despair not unendurable. I took to visiting destitute Germans on behalf of a charitable committee to investigate their circumstances and to relieve their distress if they deserved it. In the course of this work, I came upon remarkable instances of kindness in the middle of the fury of war. Not infrequently in the poor neighbourhoods landladies, themselves poor, had allowed Germans to stay on without paying any rent, because they knew it was impossible for Germans to find work.
Source： The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.2 chap. 1:The First War, 1968
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Even if they live in good terms with foreigners living within their own country, once war breaks out and they become enemies, enemy foreigners living within their own country are (and have been) treated badly, almost without exception.
Anyone supporting Germans living in the UK during the First World War would have been considered ‘unpatriotic’, but Russell didn't care. How many Japanese were able to do this kind of support work during the war?
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