Word: dunkirks
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...chorus: "Cynthia, Cynthia, Cynthia." A tall, handsome girl stepped out of the packed crowd on the dock and waved. Cynthia Elliot, niece of Lady Maud Carnegie, was taken prisoner with a mobile canteen unit in France in 1940, put to nursing 1,500 wounded and captured men of Dunkirk. With many of those men she was transferred to Dieppe to await the 1941 exchange ship, the one that never came because at the last minute the Germans backed out of the deal. The Germans gave Cynthia the job of breaking the news to the men. Released last month...
Notable omission: Dunkirk. Reason: it was dragged out over two weeks and could not be printed until the evacuation was complete...
...back the two women stopped at an inn. William Gray, an R.A.F. pilot who did not get away at Dunkirk, was hiding there. The proprietor did not want Gray to stay; if he left, the Nazis would capture him. Kitty and Mrs. Shiber secreted him in the luggage compartment of their car, got him into their Paris apartment before they fully realized the risk they had taken, or knew what they would do with Pilot Gray...
...Gueules Cassees (literally the "Broken Mouths," an organization of facially disfigured World War I veterans), the two women got Gray off their hands, but not off their minds. They had outwitted the Gestapo, but there were some 10,000 British soldiers who had been left behind at Dunkirk and were living in the woods. Kitty decided to smuggle as many of them as possible back to Britain. Mrs. Shiber decided to help...
This remarkable success emboldened the women to do something which many a reader will doubt, but which Mrs. Shiber insists is literally true. They advertised in Paris-soir: "William Gray (formerly of Dunkirk) is looking for his friends and relatives. Address Cafe Moderne, Rue Rodier, Paris." There were three replies-one obviously from the Gestapo, one too hazardous to follow up, one from a priest who was sheltering four British soldiers, was in touch with hundreds more. In the next four months Kitty and Mrs. Shiber helped almost 200 British soldiers to get out of Occupied France...