 Its special field in attempting understanding between the English and German peoples was poorly nurtured in the hostile soil of increasing Nazism.The publication of his nostalgic book "I Loved Germany" in May 1940 was ill-timed and misunderstood.On 18 May 1937, in St. Paul's Church, London, he married his first cousin, Hylda Henrietta Brooke (1879–1955), whom he had known all his life.