ESCAPE ACROSS EUROPE
AID GIVEN TO TWO BRITISH SOLDIERS (8.0. W.) RUGBY, May 6. During his speech in the House of Commons, the Foreign Secretary (Mr R. A. Eden) told the story of two British soldiers who had been captured in northern France and were transferred to a prison camp in East Prussia. From that camp they escaped and travelled all through Poland, across Hungary, through Jugoslavia, and through Greece to Athens. They could speak no word of any language but their own. Mr Eden said: “They are at this moment, I believe, with their units in the Western Desert in Egypt. That journey was not only a fine feat by the men concerned, but it was only made possible because in each one of those countries there are thousands, nay, millions, of people longing for an opportunity to help the British to victory, because Hitler, though he may rule the minds of these people, cannot rule their hearts.”
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23323, 8 May 1941, Page 10
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