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...Germans picked up Colonel Mary Booth near Ostend, in the first stage of their sweep through the Low Countries and France in May 1940. They thought the granddaughter of the Salvation Army's founder was a spy; the Qestapo grilled her for 24 hours. Then she was sent to Germany, to the Petershausen Camp for Civilian Internees in a large public school at Konstanz, the south German city on the shores of the Boden...
...Mary Booth, still in her Salvation Army uniform, had no easy time at Petershausen. When she arrived, together with her short, plump secretary, the Gestapo men said disgustedly: "Ach, the Salvation Army's coming!" To them she was a constant source of ridicule; to her fellow prisoners-Poles, Frenchmen, a few Englishwomen and some British sailors-she was a source of fascination. She never took her Army bonnet off in public. In the thrice-daily exercise periods (two hours in the morning, four in the afternoon, one after supper) she strode determinedly around the schoolyard, her secretary always three...
Even in prison Colonel Booth kept up her work of saving souls. She would stop abruptly before a fellow internee and thrust out her finger with the words: "Do you believe in God? Do you believe you'll be saved?" Though for the most part her only answer was a look of astonishment, she did talk frequently with old men & women, tried in her way to ease the lot of some young British sailors, cabin boys from the torpedoed transport Orama who, still in their early 'teens, had spells of loneliness for home and mother. (Three of them...
...young English society woman, Diana discovers a corpse (her husband's) in her study. A luckless American gambler (Brian Donlevy), who had dropped in to forage in her kitchen, obligingly helps her jettison the body in a remote telephone booth. But the corpse turns up again in the study next morning. After this, nothing is very surprising, including Diana's and Brian's escape in a stolen car and their encounter with a nest of Nazi conspirators in a Scottish castle. The Scottish proceedings end where they sometimes seem to have begun-in a distillery...
...struggling people behind him. In an hour the fire was out and firemen began untangling the piles of bodies. One hard bitten fireman went into hysterics when he picked up a body and a foot came off in his hand. They found a girl dead in a telephone booth, a bartender still standing behind...