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matters within a unified art form, he has cut the Gordian knot and sacrificed aesthetic unity to variety and vigour. One can only be glad that. he has done so; for these three poems, though less finished than his lyrical work, have greater scope and are an invaluable contribution to the literature of our time and place.
James K.
Baxter
MADELEINE, The Story of Noor Inayat Khan, George Cross, M.B.E., Croix de Guerre, by Jean Overton Fuller; Victor GolJancz. English price, 13/6. 0. THEIR OWN CHOICE, by Peter Churchill; Hodder and _ Stoughton. English price, 12/6. ORN in Moscow, her father an Indian mystic, her mother American, Noor Inayat Khan was 30 years old when she was shot by the Germans at Dachau in Septem-
ber, 1944, On the German occupation of France she and her family had escaped to England, but she returned to Pari$ in June, 1943, as a wireless operator for the French Section of the Special Operations branch at the War Office. Within 10 days of her arrival the other three members of the British team with which she worked had been
arrested (they were later executed), and in the next few weeks several of her hideouts were raided and most of her associates seized by the _ Gestapo. Until she was betrayed by a Frenchwoman in October, 1943, she remained the only British officer and the only wireless operator in the Paris area. Her code-name was Madeleine. Miss Fuller’s biography is almost legal in presentation. The evidence of each witnessmembers of Noor’s family, her friends, those of her associates who survived the war, the Gestapo man who arrested her, the interpreter who interrogated her-is presented impersonally and without comment. The evidence attests her courage and her singleness of purpose in maintaining her transmissions under in-
credible difficulties; it also shows her to have been strangely imprudent, indeed, careless, at times, and often too trusting of those who held her life in their hands, Luck and intuition were often strained to the utmost to protect her. As a courier for the French Section, , Churchill’s mission was to take in (continuéd on next page) fae ae RR A RR A A A
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 13
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