"I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde, which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918."
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As quoted in "Maeterlinck, Impoverished Exile, Arrives With Wife From France" in The New York Times (13 July 1940)
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