Refugee Safe at Radcliffe After Ordeal with Japanese

Few war workers around the College have better reasons for their activity than Tamara Polevoy, Radcliffe Junior, who spent seven months during the early stages of the Chinese war under confinement by the Japanese invaders in Peking.

Protected by her brother, Serge, who left the College as a Sophomore this year to join the Army Air Corps, Tamara spent the period of virtual imprisonment under the watchful eyes of four Jap police and sundry spies.

"I could trust no one," she said. "Only one servant stayed after the Japs took over and we suspected him of treachery," so that it was impossible to talk to him. Finally the family was reunited after their father, who is now here working on a Chinese dictionary, had been tortured and the household been sacked.