* Joy Homer never recovered, possibly due to complications from her diabetes, and she died a year later in the United States at the age of thirty-one.

* He proposed by giving her his signet ring, and they were married in London in 1946.

* Years later, an extreme anti-Communist group decided to make Birch a martyr for its cause and in 1958 appropriated his name, calling itself the John Birch Society.

* Marjorie Severyns ended up marrying Al Ravenholt in Shanghai in 1946.