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(1948) [MARC] Author: Folke Bernadotte
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have strengthened my conviction that frankness with
the press is the only correct policy. To try to lay a
smoke screen or to make wrong or untrue statements
is a procedure bound to backfire.

My last memory of London at that time was the
air attack which started just when I arrived at the
blacked out railroad station to take the train to
Scotland. The conductor told me that we would be
delayed, as it was not advisable to start during the
attack. Only a few days before, this train had been
hit by a bomb just outside London, From the window
of my compartment I could follow the drama:
German flares dropping over the city. English fighter
planes climbing up to intercept, and anti-aircraft
guns in full action. Then it became quiet again “and
the train slipped out into the night.

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