From March Violets
"You can never flatter any woman too much, just as you can never give a dog too many biscuits".
From A Pale Criminal
"Pipesmokers ...... as great a blight on our world as a missionary landing on Tahiti with a boxful of brassier…
It looks as though the WW2 back story is going to be connected to the deportation of the Salonika Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau from March to August 1943. As Bernie has covered this period in A Man without Breath and The Lady from Zagreb I'm not sure …