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736 1 A M E SI 1939-1941 )cross the border. He asked the Giedions to findout about Kilchberg, amaison de saute near Zurich which he had once visited, and then onAugust 4 wrote the Swiss Legation in Vichy for permits for his family,including Lucia. Crossing to Switzerland was not so easy in this war asit had been in the last, and Joyce had to marshal all kinds of heavy andlight artillery in his support. Early in August he mobilized his old friendPaul Ruggiero, who could help with the financialdetails because of hisposition in a Zurich bank. Joyce had already written a general statementof his plight to his old friend Edmund Brauchbar, an exporter now inthe United States but in control of branch offices in Zurich and Lyons,and Brauchbar instructed his son Rudolph and his son's business associate,Gustav Zumsteg, in Zurich, to give all possible support. 44'I thankyou very much for having remembered me, whom so many seem to haveforgotten,' 45Joyce wrote Brauchbar.Zumsteg suggested that a lawyer in Geneva would be able to secureentry permits for the Joyce family in a very short time, provided theywent to Bern instead of Zurich. Joyce agreed, wrote the lawyer, andmade plans to install Lucia at Corcelles, near Chavorny. Delmas wasable to provide an escort for part of the journey, and the Swiss Maisonde Sante Pre Carre arranged for the rest. On August 4 the German authoritiesgranted without ado a permis de sortie for Lucia, and now themain difficulties were with the Vichy and Swiss authorities.The plan for Bern came to nothing. Some place in Switzerland, however,became for certain the goal of the family, and Joyce thought theyhad a favorable omen when one evening he turned on the radio in a cafeand suddenly heard his friend Schoeck's Lebendig Begraben sung by FelixLifford on a Swiss program. On September 13, 1940, Joyce returned tohis original idea of going to Zurich, and applied to the Swiss consulatein Lyons for visas and for permission to stay in Zurich for the durationof the war. His application was sent to the office of the EidgenossischeFremdenpolizei (Federal Aliens' Police), which sent it on to the KantonalFremdenpolizei of Zurich on September 23. 46These authorities had anopportunity to display the same respect for genius that the British hadshown in admitting Sigmund Freud, but they did not recognize Joyce'sname and merely advised on September 30 the rejection of his application.One of Joyce's friends went to the office to ask the reason, and wastold it was because Joyce was a Jew. 'C'est le bouquet, vraiment,' Joyce47exclaimed on being informed of this.In the meantime further documents had arrived, and the Federal Aliens'Police sent the application back to Zurich on October 18 for reconsideration.An imposing group of Swiss citizens now ranged themselveson Joyce's side: in Lausanne Jacques Mercanton deposed that Joyce wasnot a Jew, or, in Joyce's own words to Armand Petitjean and Louis Gillet,'que je ne suis pas juif de Judee mais aryen d'Erin.' 4 * In ZurichGiedion, Vogt, Othmar Schoeck, Robert Faesi, Theodor Sporri, Dr. Emil