The Secret British Pilots Of The French Resistance | A Most Secret Service | Timeline

[Music] [Music] I just couldn't accept the idea of my family being under the Nazis and so I had to find some way of making a contribution to the war in the early years of the war Hugh Verity was a night fighter pilot but in 1942 he volunteered for RAF special duties and so became involved in one of the most extraordinary and effective operations of the secret war flying from the Sussex coast in an unarmed single engined Lysander aircraft and landing in remote corners of german-occupied France to deliver and collect agents of the French Resistance in absolute secrecy by the light of the moon throughout 1943 hue Verity led a flight of 161 special duties squadron he was 24 commander of B flight was Bob Hodges both flights were based near Bedford at RAF temps furred the trouble with tempered was it was a bit far north for operations in France so one six one squadron pick up flight a flight he used to come down here to Tangier every moon period by that I mean one week before and one week after full moon because we're the age of the moon it was it was much easier to find your way over France today RAF Tangmere is a memory and a museum the famous control tower a ruin but nearby there's Tangmere cottage the nerve center of the secret missions this was the operations room first and last port of call for so many courageous men and women the present owner has preserved the spirit of the room and it's little changed hue verities lysander in 1943 there's a reconstruction of it at Duxford near Cambridge the lysander was robust powered by a single mercury engine it could land and take off within a hundred and fifty yards each had its own code letter Hughes was je and so I called it Jiminy Cricket Jiminy Cricket seemed to be a suitable character from a Walt Disney films of my youth after all is pretty good at jumping around the place and there's one or two important omissions on this reconstruction one is the lack of the ladder there was always a fixed ladder on the port side of the fuselage the other thing is that we had a an extra fuel tank between the wheels here shaped like a torpedo one of my pilots who had been a Spitfire pilot said that life Sanders after Spitfires were like trying to fly a London bus well I think that was quite unnecessarily rude I enjoyed flying a Lysander it required a cool head and a young one Jimmy McCann's who'd flown with Douglas mada Peter Vaughan Fowler age 20 bonnie wright mills just 22 yeah you did do a trip one trip I believe in the dark didn't you I mean I did a landing before moonrise when she tries just to see how frightening it was yes and frightened me so much I never tried to write it as commander of B flight Bob Hodges had specialized in parachuting secret agents into occupied Europe he was made commander of the special squadron so he trained himself to fly lies Anders and twin-engined Hudsons by night and was soon lending a hand navigation in the life Sanders was particularly difficult one had to fly visually with maps on your knee the maps will fall on the floor there'd be quite a job picking them up again with a torch and so on it was all quite tricky but one got used to it flying over the same stretches of country in the north of France between the Normandy coast and the war down the Loire Valley one got to know the country fairly well well this is where I used to cross Hitler just yeah I think when God made the earth he designed in France with the doís so we for the lysander pilots but without that we would have been lost well that was the best outfit right yes once you saw the MS first away the clandestine activities of a flight were known to very few people least of all to the villagers of Tangmere Sussex where secrecy was essential we were just opposite the main gauge of Tangier airfield RAF Tangmere but the entrance to our carpark were shielded by high fencing so that once the secret service station wagon swept in through the gate they were invisible from the road and they could unload passengers our passengers to be without anybody seeing them every moon period secret intelligence agents were driven down from London to a safe house on the downs near Petworth major Antony Bertram had offered his home for that purpose his task was to ensure the security of the operation and inevitably his wife Barbara was drawn into the secret web we lived entirely by the moon next moon and last moon not next month in the last month tall they were all agents working with the intelligence section of the resistance movement they would come down to me at about three one of the things I had to do was to go through their luggage looking at everything they'd bought since they been in England see if it was marked made in England if so remove it shirts and pyjamas Weezie you rubbed very very hard but Milton either rubbed it out or it rubbed a hole in the shirt that was all right and if they bought a new suit the buckle on the back of a man's whiskered had to be cut off and strap soon together and then I had to do a horrible thing some of them thought that they couldn't withstand torture they'd be sure to talk and that would mean giving away their friends and they used to get me to sew a piece of poison into their cuff because I'm glad to say I don't know if any of them ever used it anyway it was a horrible feeling in the family living room behind the dartboard major Bertram built a secret cupboard in which we kept the poison the revolvers they were all given and the cautious missions were dependent entirely on the weather sometimes while we were having supper I tended me I would ring up and say it's off it's going to rain it's going to be foggy then we should have to have a terribly jolly evening and sometimes the pilots themselves would come over which made quite a big crowd in and smallish house they would ask us to come and have as a party with house guests to chair them up a bit because you know they get a bit fidgety they were waiting for their operation and they were terribly keyed up and it was good for them to have a chance to chat to some people and there's no security objection we'd always end with a singsong and we'd sing Alouette and of Suliban Devine yearned clair de la lune and all the sort of well-known songs of that sort it was always a very jolly evening we used to enjoy it very much having to wile away the time the agents might play darts in the pub in nearby Sutton but they were never told the name of the village because towards the end one of the questions the Gestapo asked them was did you pass through major birth from SAS and if they said yes the first next question was where is it they didn't know when at last the skies cleared or fog lifted the message came from Tangmere it's on and then it was necessary to let the people in the networks in France know which field we were coming to her and that was done by pre-arranged coded messages transmitted after they French news by the BBC you see no mercy no provision built an affirmation equity to the bocal commissars personnel the BBC used to send they measure personnel and we used that for getting the resistance workers knew when an operation was going to be on and one of the code names for an operation was Caroline in the name of our goat so the that particular night thing the word that would mean that it was on that night was blue so a lot of messages went out night after night Caroline has gone from walk today and cattle I understand this and cattle I understand that then suddenly Caroline was both a new blue dress that meant we'll all that night my first look the agent responsible for the operation on the ground heard this message and he would get together his team what we called a reception committee they would have got a field which was at least 500 yards long and into wind at least 100 meters from the boundary of the field would be the first pocket torch or bicycle lamp or whatever they could get hold of possibly on a stick about three feet high to keep it out clear of the lawn grass and 150 metres into wind would be the second lamp and 50 meters to the right of that would be the third lamp now by the first lamp the agent would wait for the sound of a lysander engine and then flash a pre-arranged Morse letter and the pilot would reply with his downward white light from the cockpit with another prearranged letter said that the agent would know that it was okay at which point the other lights would be lit up and so there would be a triangle a little l-shaped triangle of Lights the aim of the Lysander pilots was to land exchange their secret passengers and equipment and takeoff all within the space of three minutes if it wasn't a muddy sticky feel the light Hanna would be airborne in about a hundred yards the dedication skill and sheer daring of the pickup pilots is matched only by their modesty rarely you can't compare the risks with the risks run by the bomber aircraft going over Germany whose losses were horrific we were all so young in fact our oldest crewmember was our Canadian rear gunner it was 23 and we called him grump up but we the rest of the crew were the youngest was the mid-upper gunner who was 19 and the rest of us were 20 Fred Gardner had left school at 14 and been a cabinetmaker before joining Bomber Command he was the sergeant wireless operator in a Lancaster taking part in a night raid on Germany in 1943 when they were attacked by a Messerschmitt fighter fred managed to bail out of the blazing aircraft and landed in darkness in this field in occupied Belgium narrowly missing the power lines at daybreak he spotted a village nearby and set off in search of help then he heard a lorry approaching and I thought it can only be Germans who've got motor vehicles here so I was opposite a cottage door so I opened the door and jumped in quickly and closed the door behind me and there was a window alongside the door I looked out and a German army truck went past full of soldiers I'm sure that they were part of some sort of search party for any surviving crew members and I turned to see where I was in this room there was an elderly lady and she burst into tears so I don't know whether she was sorry for me because I was a bit roughed up or whether she was scared the latter he'd landed among friends quickly provided with civilian clothes he was passed on to a sympathetic local priest who gave him a further disguise he provided me with a cassock so I was well camouflaged and some rendezvous had been arranged for me to meet a resistance man in the woods so we met the resistance man and there was some danger because we were eight in the curfew and as civilians we could have been picked up for no reason at all other than being 8 this chap was armed and he gave me a pistol and showed me how to release the safety catch and we set off the resistance fighter codenamed Raymond was wanted by the Gestapo German troops were everywhere they had to pass close to some barracks and at that moment a door opened and the light streamed 8 and some German soldiers came out with their rifles slung across their shoulders and two of them made toward bicycles which were leaning against the heart main to the bicycles and started coming pedaling slowly towards us but by this time we were both in the ditch at the side of the road and crates down waiting there for them to pass which they did very close to us and what bothered me particularly was my companion pulls out his pistol points it at the Germans and kept it trained on the Germans as they passed about three yards away and I was having palpitations there if we coughed or sneezed I think that'd have been some bullets flying at his next secret rendezvous Fred was equipped with forged papers but then he was led to a private room in a small hotel the doors were locked and one of the men in the room was flight sergeant Herbert pond pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force pond was in rather rather a difficult spot the resistance men thought he was a German plant and he was in in danger of them executing him in fact so the resistance men asked me if I could vote for him so I asked pend a few questions and it transpired that he and I had been on a training station some months before we hadn't known each other at the time and we'd witnessed a quite bizarre incident where some Australian crews had acquired some chickens and they'd flown them from upstairs windows to see how far they could fly across the parade ground and I think they were bets placed on it too while no German could have known those details so I was able to clear pond and afterwards he said I I'm sure you saved my life Gardner and pond were now on the famous possum escape route from Belgium down into France for weeks they traveled together in constant danger and with only a few words of French between them miss reading and notice Fred shoved his way onto a train and into the wrong carriage and I was followed by lots of German officers in there very resplendent uniforms and one or two actually said excuse me in French as they push past me in the corridor and I thought yes you don't know I'm wearing an RAF PT Vettes we had to bear in mind the possibility of some form of prang on landing on fields which were unfortunately going across ditches and for those occasions when wanted to be able to emerge into the general scenery and not look too much like an RAF pilot so some of us wore civilian clothes underneath a little bit of uniform on top just in case we were caught by the Germans before we were trying to do a run in a flight line book which I treasure there is a remark by Wing Commander Hodges saying but of course I'd always want to wear my tunic otherwise walking into a prison camp they wouldn't know what my rank was in the moon period of September 1943 I called a Harvest Moon we had night's fitful pickup operations 12 nights running from the 10th to the 21st of September actually it's an exceptionally good more period we attempted 25 landings and achieved 19 we were six pilots in the flight at that time and the squad commander Wing Commander Hodges also did to pick up operations with a swine with the Hudson and one with Lysander Humanity was an experienced pilot with night flying experience which was particularly valuable and he had the ability to weld the flight into a very closely knit and efficient organization and lady extremely well from the front and operations himself after five weeks on the run Fred Gardner had reached this house near reims from the last house where we were hidden we were told that there would be a chance for flight sergeant ponder myself to be flown home and we were quite amazed at this and I thought would be very lucky if that came off I did a single pickup north of Northwest of Rass or Reims if you talk English and this was for the possum mi9 Network which was a Belgian escape-and-evasion Network three or four resistance men arrived together with a Belgian agent and we set off into into the darkness although there was quite a moon it was quite a moonlight night I remember it as being rather dodgy because for two reasons one was that there was no welcome for me when I arrived over the field and I had to circle the area for an hour waiting for a light to come up and the other was that there was a haystack very close indeed to the strip of ground I had to land on I don't know whether the aircraft was early or we were late but the lysander came overhead rather some time before we got to the landing strip and he circled ran flashing his identification lights and I thought this is this is impossible so we had to run the last half mile to get to the field and then we found that some of it had been plowed that caused some consternation amongst the resistance men but there was a small part left with grass in the area of good solid ground on which one landed and rolled was much too narrow but we quickly set out three torches as a flare path and it was my job as a wireless operator to do the signalling so I flashed the letter R I remember distinctly it was a letter R to the pilot as he did a circuit and he came in and over the haystack and despite a rather big banks he made a good landing we were all crowded into this little cockpit and again it was my job to give a signal over at the microphone in the back to the pilot that we were clear to take off the hatch was closed and within well seconds really we were in the air again and into a moonlit sky and had quite a reasonable flight home we weren't molested by the enemy and till we got to the French coast there were a few searchlights that way bit about but we weren't picked up and we came across the channel again we could see everything quite well and I remember looking down on Brighton and my grandmother lived at Port Slade and I could almost pick her hay sight as we flew over and of course she didn't know that I was safe and we came into a beautifully smooth landing at Tangmere and then of course we were taken into the cottage and introduced to our pilot Squadron Leader Verity and I had to compliment him on his navigation I couldn't understand how he could find a field in the middle of France when I was bomber crews we had well don't like to say it but quite some difficulty and finding the target sometimes it was certainly a very strange adventure I couldn't really believe it was happening to me it seemed like something out of a boys magazine the reality is that the man who had organized Fred's final escape was dead within months commandant pottier did a number of operations getting our evading air crew on two flights back to England but he was eventually betrayed and captured and ruthlessly tortured to get information out of him and when it got to a point that he had one eye gouged out by his interrogators he couldn't stand it anymore and he jumped out of a window to kill himself there seems little doubt that the sacrifices made by the resistance and their helpers shortened the war by six months or more after the war my wife and I made several trips to Belgium to visit these very heroic people again and on one occasion we were interviewed by the press and as a result we had several phone calls including one from a gendarme who as a boy had feigned my forage cap in the field near the crash and he asked me if I'd like it back so we went along to the police station and there was a ceremony when he presented me with my cap and I think that concludes the story not quite the end it comes as pilot meets passenger 50 years on need to stay here and to see you a good mr. Wright 52 years I couldn't do anything I spoke languages and of course I could sing a very useful I don't think for a war hymn but you know when you're young you feel heroic and I I just wanted to be involved how I had no idea what a pretty boy from 1941 to 1944 diana Durazo moved in a shadowy world of secret agents and secret information as a private courier for two of the most powerful spy masters of the Second World War today diana lives with her younger brother Tony for almost 20 years they together ran the local restaurant in the village of East Dean on the downs near East Bourne now they are retired Diana was born in England and held a British passport but she was brought up in the South of France within a few miles of the Italian border as good a place as any to observe the rise of fascism in the 1930s her mother Helen was Welsh and her father Louie Durazo an anti-fascist Italian aristocrat here in France still in her early teens diana began her lifelong affair with the politics of europe and i used to listen on a french radio to Goebbels and he was my German has always been rotten but I could understand the excitement that was being built up and therefore in a sense for a young girl I was politically conscious far more so than most people who were my school friends weren't interested she had also inherited a quite remarkable voice a natural soprano and soon she was receiving lessons from her great-aunt Mary Louise ed veena star of the Paris Opera then war was declared it just celebrated my 18th birthday and I thought oh god you know when my friends will be killed we all be killed and I was very dramatic and from there I decided I was going to do something but what Diana and her mother came to London and Diana found a job in civil defense but by 1941 she was part of the cosmopolitan swirl of artists and musicians who had escaped from Europe and her extraordinary vocal talent marked her out so I went to an audition I was taken I was offered the lead if I knew them of course I knew them I I didn't know anything but I said yes yes of course I could yes I sing in Italian only I don't know it in English didn't know it in either but still I got the contract and I went to Dublin I was to sing to cheer the Lama more which hadn't been done since the days of Tetrazzini and Gilda in Rigoletto and if successful Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and of course this was beyond my wildest dream everything went the way I had prayed for and at the end of it of course I had an invitation to return London was bursting at the seams not just with Emmy great artists but with military attache xand secret intelligence officers of all nationalities all on the lookout for the perfect recruit they felt that I could be perhaps useful in other ways and I was taken to see Colonel Moore Yvette's who I subsequently learned was the chief of the Czech intelligence he was a very charming nice man he chatted to me a bit but obviously I was not what he was interested in general de Gaulle had set up his Free French headquarters in Carlton House Terrace and it was here that he installed a young French officer as head of French secret intelligence Colonel Pasi I met Colonel Pasi of whom I knew nothing through a friend of mine who was a commander in the French Navy subsequently pass he introduced me to Colonel Claude Dancy Dancy was deputy head of British intelligence a true English gentleman and ruthless I think I'm right and say we actually met at the Waldorf I think it was the first time we met and we had tea and he asked me a few questions about Dublin and was i interested in going further and field and to look for work and yes I was and he said well I think we can you know help you and from that the seeds were sown of how could they help me well we could help you travel you could go wherever you want you could go to Switzerland or Spain know you could get auditions oh you know my ears stood up my eyes glistened and I was hooked they lifted a curtain and said look we can help you but you must help us that was my meeting with Claude Dancy and Colonel Pasi who of course I learned quite quickly on were two of the great spy masters of the Second World War although they had their own military intelligence units under and all them paraphernalia they also had what we used to refer to as their private collection a few unknown unattached bonds that they could make yourself I will happen to be one of them because I could sing the secrecy of the private collection was absolute nobody knew who the others were I mean you would know perhaps who your colleague was because you would meet but you would their creatures they wanted to be free to organize some pretty dirty tricks which they did Andre d'oeuvre alias Colonel Pasi was a French patriot and a brave one he called himself Pasi after the station on the paris metro we know he visited his agents in occupied France and was brought back to England at least once by the famous lysander pickup operation out of RAF Tangmere in Sussex at big nor on the Sussex Downs just north of Tangmere the intelligence services kept a safe house for secret agents it was run by Maj Antony Bertram and his wife Barbara the enigmatic Colonel Pasi stayed there Colonel Percy came down to big nur and was not going over to Tangier so was left with me and my husband didn't really quite like leaving him he never attracted me in the least there was something I never really took to him he was very charming rather cool you know the French can be a little bit what I call they have an odor a sort of reserve he was very intelligent very charming always very courteous but underlying it I always felt that he was observing he was assessing Pasi decided they could make use of Diana as a private courier travel would be made possible if I used the camouflage if you like of us young singer young and quite pretty at the time to go abroad audition try and get a broadcast and make contact with conductors musicians singers you know put forward my career at the same time fit in with the necessities and the service that I would be asked to do on behalf of my masters if I was to travel to other countries I needed another passport a neutral Passport and of course I could have had a forged one forged papers were pop glass nevertheless it was Pasi who determined in his own very meticulous way the would be better if I genuinely had foreign papers quite by chance my brother-in-law James Mason was filming at the time and he had said to me that young standing was absolutely desperate to stay in England I think he found it funny that I was desperate to get out the man was desperate to stay in and I said all he might just suit me very nicely I could what he's here he said Spanish and anyway he arranged a meeting we met we had a chat he told me why he wanted to stay in England I told him why I wanted to get out I said should we make a deal that we'd get married and divorced as quickly as possible we never really thought about that anyway we did it we went to mehriban registry office we got married and that was it we shook hands we had a drink and it was bye-bye I had what I wanted he had ostensibly what he wanted didn't quite work out that way though still Pasi wasn't satisfied I was given an order to attend Lewis prison I somewhat surprised I said why and they said well your husband's there I do t attend it prison I was very impressed by its outside wood had lovely greenery hanging around it not very impressed with the inside I asked him it was anything I could do what had happened and he said he had been arrested on a trumped-up charge of having firearms and I said what's going to happen and he said I don't know they're going to send me to prison or in turn me or both and I said I'm awfully sorry well we'll we'll see if there's anything I can do let me know and I went away and I reported that I've been and done what I've and asked what had happened they said mind your business got nothing to do with you this is perfect you're married to a Spaniard he's been imprisoned and he will be interned and at the end of the war we'll kick him out and you've got nothing more to do with it of course in the process I made it very clear that I was not any heroine in the making I knew too much about the kind of thing that could occur to people who were apprehended and arrested in enemy territory in 1943 a young French girl arrived in Paris and of course it was full of German that we called the doily for I see the katoa in English is the Colorado beetle that what we used to call them Catherine had come to Paris from Brittany at the heart of the French resistance movement a few days earlier Jean camera had arrived from England to be a senior officer in the resistance I met John come here at my cousin's fact a few days after he had been landed in occupied France in the most famous lies and the operation three lysander came down with nine men and he was one of those that evening over supper camera recruited Catherine and he said I need somebody to go somewhere for me so I said what I go and then it was called member exactly what it was for maybe it was to deliver message that the appointment had been changed or something very very simple like that and of course we used to get messages via radio from England those messages had to be coated or decoded and then delivered to the people interested so I learned to code and decode then some time I was asked to carry some arms I remember one day going to satchel peace with will she lost her pistol and other times I went to tell people that they were going to be arrested and that they should move and keep get away and that way one day I was sent to l'amour and I arrived at the station I took the bus and I went to that house and I rang the bell nobody answered I didn't dare turn around I was so frightened that the chair would be behind my back and that they were they would arrest me I did not know what to do I say I close my eyes and then I turned around closing my eyes and I opened my eyes again and there was nobody there so I rushed back to the main road and I took the bus my duties were comparatively simple they didn't ask one to do anything like encoding or decoding or deciphering or using radio or anything you went you were a messenger you were not a diplomatic bag but you were a post bag and of course the methods mainly used nine times out of ten were through music for instance if I had asked or a number of sheet music songs from different times which was suitable for auditioning from there although all music was sealed in England before I departed once I was abroad it was perfectly simple I opened the seal I took out the music I took out the piece that I was told to deliver and received in return a song to add to my collection encoded within sheet music was the most secret and sensitive information Allied troops movements sabotage plans instructions that would affect the entire conduct of the war for almost four years diana carried her secret songs to and from the capitals of neutral europe flying sometimes in small planes from remote airfields in scotland of the west country to madrid geneva stockholm Dublin and Lisbon in Lisbon especially agents and double agents mingled easily with diplomats and bankers and with the young singer just arrived for a concert thus diana was able to deliver and collect not only coded information for her masters but all the gossip or rumor which he overheard intelligence work of any description is made up mainly of boring long analysis and assessment all kinds of little items that you might glean at a cocktail party could in effect carries some minut piece of information which just fitted into a puzzle therefore ears were very important and in my case weariness I was born weary and I think this is perhaps the one characteristic that both my masters noted back in London Diane has delivered her freshly coded songs and her news to colonel Pasi and Colonel Dancy for their eyes and ears only if we met one-to-one like there would be a discussion as to how things have turned out what I'd observed what did I feel was i anxious had I got anxieties in otherwise we would perhaps be a little group a small group four or five naval men are me at the at Carlton House Terrace we would sit in circles of six or seven at a table sometimes with General de Gaulle who would appear I never sat at his table but I was sick just alongside him and see the great man I was always what the French term are solid they're not solitary in the sense that the it might be translated as always very self-contained and the only thing that I had which I think was probably a great recommended I had a pretty phenomenal memory I never drank I didn't smoke I was a virgin until I was over 21 which was a unique because in the war people were hopping in and out of bed because tomorrow might not come I was very much very reserved very watchful very wary for the young Kathryn Campell wariness and danger went hand in hand on the streets of Paris one day I was told to go and collect some money I was warned that the person who had been before me never came back but I said all right I go so I went and there was a cool year that I did not know who handed me a power cell as a matter of fact I never saw that cohere anymore but in any case I was walking along with my parcel suddenly felt a hand on my left shoulder hand on my right shoulder and people said police so I was a little bit afraid of what was going to happen later on as a matter of fact they looked at my passes they noticed that it was money and then all right we'll go to the commissar the police at pictures and you explain what that parcel is and where it comes from and why it's going and so we walked along quietly not too fast and then suddenly I heard alright you go we keep the parcel and I lived I went to the first tube station and I stayed in the to practically the whole day changing every time I could I was so frightened that there put somebody who was following me to know where I was going where was coming from where was going next I was so aware of my safety and the dreadful risks that other people who were field people field agents that they took and I don't think there's anyone who had similar work to mine it doesn't feel the same and didn't feel the same certain relief that we were safe and the sense of guilt that other people were putting their lives on the line real name Mary Matalin for card she was to my mind exactly like a cinema spy but you never knew next time she came what colored hair she would have sometimes she was ridged sometimes she was dark all sorts one night in the agents safehouse at big nor Mary Madeline spoke to Barbara about torture I thought torture was a thing of the past in a war you expected people to be killed but torture was something new and something absolutely horrible some of them had already been tortured they were going out liable to be arrested and knew that they would be tortured again a horrible feeling somehow I think six weeks was considered an average life of an agent dropped after the d-day invasion Catherine and her group left Paris Joe come here my cousin Vivi our video and Calle and myself left on with all on bicycles to go to the country because this is what we had been told to do by HQ they headed for the Loire Valley and this small town every day at noon they checked their secret letterbox in a village church nearby we were expecting two people coming from England who had been dispatched and one of them was supposed to replace Nakamura who had been under great strain since many months but we never saw them it was decided that Catherine should be picked up by an RAF Lysander and brought to safety came to the night that the plane was really coming down my noise was so frightening that I did not know what to do [Music] but I knew it was to pick me out so pleased it was the first time ever that I had been in a plane so I was of course so impressed and happy that then people said that there was a lot of flex were on the plane so I thought we are not there yet Kathryn did arrive safely she married a fellow resistance fighter and now helps to run the family art gallery in Mayfair it's the first time since 50 years that s because all those days because I have lost so many friends I remained part of the private collection until I would say towards the end of 1944 but my connection with the French as such really came to an end earlier than that partly because General de Gaulle's headquarters had moved to our jeers partly because I think I was superfluous to requirements it wasn't because as sometimes people have said to me I had a difference of opinion with Colonel Pasi I don't think for a moment he'd have given a job for my feelings but politically we were poles apart he extreme right-wing I very much left wing I haven't changed I must add just for the record for many years after the war Diana continued to gather secret information behind the iron curtain but that's another story meanwhile whatever became of her Spanish husband last heard of in Lewis prison 1962 I believe my last recital at the Wigmore Hall and after in the green room will be the usual and kindly well wishes including apt above a goodly man came up to me kissed my hand and said in perfect English I have no idea you sang Spanish songs so beautifully and I simple you know the usual thank you very kind of it and he said you don't know me do you and I said no should I and he said well yes I was your husband and with that he walked off that's it I never saw her you

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