“It strikes me that this lady, a native of Baltimore, might well be used for a mission and that we might facilitate her voyage there and back, and stand her expenses on her trip in exchange for what service she could render us.”
-Nicolas Bodington, January 15, 1941 (Purnell 73)
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"You almost imagine that neon lights are blinking from your forehead and proclaiming, on and off, Made in England."
-Peter Churchill, SOE officer, c. 1952 (Purnell 141)
"I haven't yet seen any butter and there is little milk . . . [and] women are no longer entitled to buy cigarettes."
-Virginia Hall in the New York Post, September 4, 1941 (Purnell 87)
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