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RefNoFS/7/1/7/54
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TitleCopy letter from Simon to Born
Date11 July 1940
DescriptionThanks Born for his letter and sends a brief answer to his question so he may have it before the weekend.
'All the schemes of which I have heard do apply only to children under 16 and this is also the limit, above which one needs an exit permit. These permits are only issued to mothers accompanying children and to some special categories as people who do work of national importance. I am afraid there is no possibility of sending your boy away. Here is a very strong feeling growing up against the indiscriminate internment and nearly all the important people in Oxford have taken some steps at the Government. I believe that the scientists at least will be released in the near future. Did you know the chemist Prof. Fritz Mewyer from Frankfurt, who committed suicide when he was going to be interned?'
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FormatCarbon copy
AccessStatusOpen
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