Letter: Euro-sceptics economical with the reality

The Independent - London | November 29, 1994| | Copyright

Sir: As Patrick Nicholls MP was born in 1948, he obviously knew nothing of the incredible courage of the thousands of French men and women who were working with the Allied forces during the Second World War. Many escaped from France to join General de Gaulle in London and were later parachuted back into their country to set up the Resistance movement.

During the early part of the war I was a secretary in ...

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