Two days later, on Monday, September 23, Mary read the news about the sinking of the City of Benares, and the deaths of so many of the children aboard. “May God rest their souls,” she wrote in her diary that night, “and help us to wipe the curse of Hitler & the vilest burden mankind has ever born[e] from the world.” Her father ordered that in view of the sinking, “the further evacuation overseas of children must cease.”
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