They left Casa Shanti the following morning, arriving in Britain in the beginning of September to more distressing news. Every day, grim news to add to the depressing times. Alice had begun to wish Foster would desist from purchasing the newspaper. That day, two hundred thousand cotton workers had gone on strike in Lancashire, and Hermann Göring had been elected President of the Reichstag. The National Socialist"s rise to power grew stronger by the minute.
Despite the gloomy news on all fronts, with Ascona behind her, Alice"s mood lifted. Hope replaced the heavy, dark feeling she had been unable to shift the whole of the previous month. They took a taxi from Waterloo to Victoria Station and boarded the Canterbury train to Faversham. Everyone was looking forward to arriving at their destin
