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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Discussion on Changing Clothes in Crisis
Tom Earnshaw, Copilot in B for Bertie:
Now look here, what are we going to do about our clothes?
Frank Shelley - Observer:
Yes, we've got to get into civvies somehow.
John Glyn Haggard - Pilot in B for Bertie:
Well, what's George doing?
Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie: [Taking off his clothes]
I'm swimming.
John Glyn Haggard - Pilot in B for Bertie:
Where?
Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie:
In a canal.
John Glyn Haggard - Pilot in B for Bertie:
Well, how do you know there is one?
Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie:
There's always a canal in Holland. The next best thing to having civilian clothes is to have none. I'm going to be a swimming instructionist and spy off the land.
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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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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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Defiance Against German Occupation in Holland
Else Meertens:
Do you think that we Hollanders, who threw the sea out of our country, will let the Germans have it? Better the sea.
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