In WWII, codenamed Dédée, and aged just 21, she created the famous Comet Evasion Line to get Allied soldiers and airmen back to England.
She set up safehouses along the route from Belgium to Spain, procured clothes and false IDs, and ran the entire operation.
She personally made about 24 round trips before 'handing off' to other trusted couriers.
Arrested by the Nazis in January 1943, she did not break.
Her deputy - aged just 18 - carried on her work, and De Jongh was eventually sent to Ravensbrück and then Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
She survived the Concentration Camps, survived the war, to work in hospitals in Africa, dying in 2007.
The British Colonel in Madrid who received her 'charges' would later call her a "pure heroine of legend."
During her work, the British supplied funds to support the Comet Line.
Much of this was unused, and at the end of the war De Jongh tried to return it.
Her offer was declined.
She used it instead to set up school scholarships.
Her story became the inspiration for the 1977 BBC Drama series 'Secret Army', with actress Jan Francis playing 'Yvette' - directly based on Andree De Jongh - even wearing De Jongh's trademark beret and mackintosh.
'Secret Army' in turn, was of course parodied in BBC's 1982 comedy 'Allo, Allo'.
They kept the beret and mackintosh for Kirsten Cooke's character 'Michelle'.
But behind it all is the real story of quiet courage of a 21-year-old from Belgium.
21 years old.
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Because we’re looking at the problem from the wrong end.
The small boats are not a crisis, only in that they add to the real problems:
- The rapidly growing shortage of hotels for asylum seekers;
- The interminably long delay for those people to have their applications processed.
Solve THOSE two problems … in an efficient, humane and legal manner … and the actual boats become a minor distraction, easily handled through a better process.
In addition, you solve the shortage of hotels … by solving the delays to processing of asylum applications.
By the way, in #London, The #ULEZ Expansion being implemented by Mayor Khan ...
... is by stipulation of the Tory Government in 2020.
1/3.
Precisely, by Transport Minister (at the time) Grant Shapps, to Sadiq Kjhan, 14/05/2022, Section 12, Part (h) .. as a part of the Central Government TFL Pricing Agreement.
2/3.
More precisely, this letter :
(This is why Shapps has been so silent on the matter)
So a Care ‘Charity’ set up by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt had 1 employee, who not only had never worked in the arena, but was a former employee of Jeremy Hunt who resigned in disgrace, and who’s now re-employed by Jeremy Hunt, and received 2/3 of the charity’s income as salary.
In addition the ''charity' pledged to use donated funds to research and report on Patient Care.
Research completed : Unknown.
Reports published : Zero.
For a few weeks I have been evaluating @bikemap and @komoot as cycle mapping applications.
One or t’other, not both, would get my hard earned monthly fee.
Well, a decision has been made.
Actually, enforced upon me by an unethical business practice.
Having used both of the free versions, I had decided to go with @bikemap, until today when having not used the app for a couple of weeks I discovered something absolutely atrocious.
@jdpoc I created a number of routes on @bikemap, and followed them on the cycle for navigation purposes but I now find suddenly that that feature has been suddenly withdrawn.
THIS DAY in 1933, a refugee arrived at #Dover with a patchy work history and no ties to this country, fleeing oppression from the #Nazi regime who had burned his books and turned his home into a #Nazi Youth Centre.
The UK Authorities misplaced his papers.
His landing card - his only documentation at the time - was lost and only rediscovered in 2011.
The Daily Mail urged readers to boycott his lectures raising money for other refugees from the #Nazi regime.
Apparently he wasn't good enough, and didn't qualify for refugee status, him being only a Nobel Prize winning world-acclaimed scientist and renowned Professor.