Sowerbutt was worried about
raising suspicions. In the present war fever, encouraged by the
authorities, people were reporting anybody who might be a German spy or
sympathiser. In Luton, the previous week, the wife of a councillor had
been arrested over a cycling holiday in Germany in 1935. The magistrate was
shown photographs of the then girl posing with uniformed members of the Hitler
Youth. The case was dismissed.
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