Abstract
In May 1940 proprietors of hotels and boarding-houses at Port Erin, Edwardian seaside resort on the south-west corner of the Isle of Man, were asked by a representative of the Home Office if they would be prepared to accommodate internees in return for payment of three shillings per person per day. Prospects for the season in that summer of 1940 did not seem rosy. Most of them were happy to agree.
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© 1983 Miriam Kochan
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Kochan, M. (1983). Luxurious Idleness. In: Britain’s Internees in the Second World War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05483-1_9
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