She was not a sentimental woman and for the most part remained unmoved by German pleadings of hardship. Joan Fry failed to impress her. ‘Miss Fry is all self-sacrifice and burning enthusiasm,’ she noted, ‘but her compassion seems to be reserved almost exclusively for Germans. She shys [sic] away from any allusion to suffering and privations in Great Britain.’18 Nor did Lady D’Abernon leave Violet Bonham Carter in any doubt as to the true state of affairs in Germany: ‘Believe me,’ she told her, ‘the Germans are not suffering as they say. There is no great poverty here. 95% are living in plenty,
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British socialite observes that poverty was exaggerated and life was good in Germany.
