Source: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 21 (pp. 506-507)
“A gross but deflated old man, of cringing manners, inarticulate in speech and with the hygiene habits of a pig, and could not conceive how a man so utterly devoid of self respect could ever have been selected as a personal physician by anyone who had even a limited possibility of choice.”
Hugh Trevor-Roper interviewed Morell in 1945.
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