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...British Broadcasting Corp.'s shortwave program one night last month was heard the voice of a Colonel Britton. There is a Colonel Reginald Brittan in England, a 76-year-old retired Colonel of the Sherwood Foresters, but BBC made its Colonel Britton a mystery man. He spoke polished English, French, German, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Norwegian...
...Colonel Britton, shyly at first, then with growing confidence, plugged the V campaign. He urged the people of the occupied countries to mark the letter everywhere, even on the backs of German officers. According to reports that leaked out in a few places, they actually did. "He told people how to tap it out in Morse Code, three dots and a dash, recommended it as a signal for calling waiters, knocking on doors, blowing auto horns, bugles and train whistles. Soon that tat-tat-tat-too was heard all over Europe. He told them to call for Beethoven...
This week Britain's Britton brought his campaign to a climax, proclaimed "the week for mobilization" of "Europe's invisible V army." Winston Churchill blessed the campaign with these words: "So long as the peoples of Europe continue to refuse all collaboration with the invader, it is sure that his cause will perish and that Europe will be liberated...
...Colonel Britton promised more, hinted that at the proper time the V army would be called into action against the invaders. Until then its members were asked only to fight for independence as best they could, to "splash the V from one end of Europe to the other." In the polished, conspiratorial tones to which thousands of Europeans have lately become familiar, Colonel Britton concluded: "You are asked to join a disciplined army. It is a strange army, but one to which it is an honor to belong. It is an army which the Germans fear. . . . The Germans will...
...First was Mrs. Schuyler P. Britton, who succeeded her husband in the presidency of the St. Louis Cardinals for a short time...