The conversations Franck and Fry held with their fellow rail passengers that summer were especially revealing. One old lady explained to Joan that, although she had felt no hatred during the war, the peace treaty aroused intense resentment: ‘To be treated as outcasts, as individuals with whom no relations are possible, is even worse than hunger or constant anxiety.’ Another woman stated how much in normal times she would have enjoyed speaking English, ‘but now a broken people does not want to hear it’.3 The women, Franck noted, were the most vitriolic against the Treaty in general while the
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Wide tract of society felt betrayed by Wilson and already wanted future revenge. More hatred in peace than in war.
