Word: millar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Millar was accepted for Resistance work. At first he was just barked at by his superiors or kept cooling his heels in the dirty waiting room filled with dated copies of the Daily Express and France Libre. But if he was not on time, he was barked at louder: "Handsome Mrs. Pollock would glower at me from behind her flower-and-chocolate-laden desk, and her pneumatic Jane, the American secretary in uniform, would pretend to be engrossed in her typing, so that she could spare no sympathy." A major warned him: "Please be careful, my friend. You must...
...European leader, the violent, simple, purposeful man of action typified by the Resistance leaders and the British and American officers who lived with them and helped them. In one of the most exciting and intelligent books produced by World War II, one of these British officers, Captain George Reid Millar, has described his experiences as an area leader of the French Resistance. Captain Millar has the face of a fanatic without a dogma (this made it possible for him to lead a forlorn hope). He also has a sense of the absurd, which makes it difficult for him to take...
...Aquarium. The year was 1944. The place was a vast, dirty, cobwebbed "aquarium" of a room in a London house, which served as the British headquarters of the French Resistance. Here George Millar was interviewed as a candidate to be parachuted into France. Millar believed that he was being offered death. "And I wanted a useful death and then peace. . .. I was thirty-three and so unhappy that life was almost sense-free, almost sensation-free...
After the school came the "cover-story," the bogus life history that Millar must memorize to go with his false identification papers. He was to be an insurance publicity agent. Then he passed through "the phony-Continental-clothes-and-accessories department" which issued everything from "summer underwear to a 'housewife.' " Millar dumped his disguises somewhere in the "aquarium" as quickly as possible; they scared...
...What is my field name?" asked Millar. He had never bothered to find...