In a cinema in Touraine a close-up cf Hitler provoked shrill whistles (a sign of disapproval in France) on the part of the spectators. One young girl did not whistle but hooted. Stopped on the way out by the Germans who had been called to clear the cinema she was asked why she had hooted. “I hooted because I don’t know how to whistle.” She got three months in prison for her pains.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1942, Page 2
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73Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1942, Page 2
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