“... one of the reasons Clag was popular.Things were less straightforward with the Reverend Canon John Grove, a bachelor clergyman in his sixties who had been the school’s headmaster for two decades. Even by the modest standards of the day, the monotony of Canon Grove’s dress was striking. I never saw him in anything other than his black ...”

“... commissioned a comprehensive survey of refugee movements. To superintend the project, it appointed John Hope Simpson, a persuasive and highly energetic man who had worked in India and Palestine, directed National Food Relief policy in China and served as vice-president of the Refugee Settlement Commission in Athens. Simpson’s mainstay in France was ...”