hand-delivered the names of contemporary artists in trouble: Duchamp, Lam, Chagall, Lipchitz, Zilberman, Ernst, Masson. Thomas Mann, writing from California, sent lists of German poets and writers: Mehring, Hertha Pauli, Lion Feuchtwanger, Friedrich Wolf. Jules Romains and Jacques Maritain sent volumes of French literary names. Jan Masaryk, the exiled Czech foreign minister and a personal hero of Varian’s, insisted that Franz Werfel make the top of the list, but then the New York Post had reported Werfel dead, shot by the Gestapo in Paris. The list was a lacework, many
Iist
