Marie was well enough to be amused by the contrast between the American and British response to her situation. The British High Commission, she told Farrell, had sent a diplomat in a Laura Ashley skirt, carrying a parasol, who told her there was nothing they could do – after all, Marie had gone to the north illegally. “Marie said she had never been more grateful to be an American,” he recalls.

-Lindsey Hilsum

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