If UCL did offer to reinstate me, it would be churlish of me to refuse, but really, my work there was over.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing what I've tried to do for 25-26 years.
A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.
I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.
They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.
I never thought I would start working again, and I did, but it was really hard, and I don't know that I would advise anyone to step back the way I did.
There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.
I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.
It feels good to have your work respected again.
Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.