  Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939, and in July Arthur wrote about the plight of Czech refugees in the weekly newspaper The Christian World (Prior 1939). The Priors had been involved for some time in aiding refugees, and they applied for a job that Arthur called ‘tutor-&amp;-mother-superior’ at a small hostel in the East End, caring for Jewish children fleeing Austria. It was, he said, ‘a very bitter disappointment’ when they did not get the job.