Twenty years after the close of W.W I the American writer Willis Gordon Brown recalled his days as a fighter pilot with the R.F.C. and the curious series of crashes that lead to the discovery of a German saboteur who lived among them; his reminiscence appeared in the October, 1938 issue of SCRIPT:
"To the Germans this man was a highly respected hero giving his life for the fatherland; to us he became a rat of the lowest order."