ABSTRACT
Karl Stern's account of his arrival in London is masterful, conveying the sense of isolation, vulnerability, strangeness and insignificance that enveloped him and his contemporaries on all sides. When Stern caught up with Liselotte von Baeyer over tea at the Cumberland Hotel, she was living in a rooming house near Primrose Hill. Meanwhile, on July 3rd, 1937, Karl and Liselotte greeted the arrival of their first child, Antony. Photographs of the family's first years in London suggest a warm and intense rapport between mother and son. So on New Year's Eve, 1939, Karl left Liselotte and Antony in the care of friends in Cambridge, and returned alone to his London flat. Clearly, Stern himself was determined not to be that way, and became a generous supporter of The Catholic Worker movement, and an occasional contributor to its newspaper, The Catholic Worker.
