One of Our Aircraft Is Missing - Kissing Hands: Snub or Compliment?
Jo de Vries: [to Frank]
;; No Englishman would kiss a woman's hand - except perhaps an actor.
Frank Shelley - Observer:
Snub or compliment?
Jo de Vries:
Compliment.
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing - A Toast to History and Identity
Jo de Vries:
I give you a toast. Louis?
Jo de Vries:
It has been our motto since the House of Orange drove out the Spaniards 300 years ago. "Je Maintiendrai.
Jo de Vries:
It's nice to be a woman again, even for half an hour.
Geoff Hickman, Front Gunner in B for Bertie:
What do they reckon that motto of yours means, then, ma'am?
Jo de Vries:
We can take it.
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing - Hope Amidst Oppression
Jo de Vries: [speaking to the downed aircrew as RAF bombers approach]
You see, that's what you're doing for us. Can you hear them running for shelter? Can you understand what that means to all the occupied countries? To enslaved people, having it drummed into their ears that the Germans are masters of the Earth. Seeing these masters running for shelter. Seeing them crouching under tables. And hearing that steady hum night after night. That noise which is oil for the burning fire in our hearts.
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