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<p>[Page 57]</p><p>didn't end there but gradually pervaded the whole camp, and B. in particular was often heinously attacked. Martin Suhl, for example, suggested that the statutes contain a clause barring any German who had been naturalised in Australia or had tried to do so from the management of the camp. This, as Suhl repeatedly told his friends, was aimed directly at B., who after the outbreak of war, on advice of his lawyers and to save his business, had tried to obtain naturalisation, but then didn't proceed. Suhl knows as well as anybody else that most Germans were only naturalised for business reasons and in their hearts remained true Germans, and have rightly felt more German than ever since being interned. There are a whole lot of naturalised gentlemen here in camp, and particularly the German commercial consuls among us are all naturalised. Thus, instead of wounding B., Suhl has stirred up a hornet's nest,</p>