002- Operation Fleur De Lys

Escape. Escape tonight to occupied France and the underground. The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations presents, Escape, a new series of programs at which this, the second, is Operation Florida League, written and directed by William Ann Robeson.

Today, the 14th of July, the people of a free France celebrate the anniversary of their escape escape from the tyranny of the kings of Versailles. One hundred and fifty-eight years ago today, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille and let loose the French Revolution.

The torch of liberty set a fire that day never burned more fiercely than during the years when France was occupied by the Nazis. We escaped tonight to occupied France, from which three years ago there was no escape.

You can call me Duke, but don't use my right name. I might want to go back to France someday. And there are a lot of people in the world that wouldn't understand that what I did was justified in a war.

No, I don't have any regrets. Moral ones, that is. It isn't what I did to Renee that keeps me awake at night. It's just a memory of her. There isn't much of bother in my official report on Operation Flirtily, but then it isn't custom-rated.

descriptions of slim sunburned legs and wide deep brown eyes in a military document. And anyway, she was only an incident in the operation, even if she became somewhat more important to me. Operation Florida League began like all the others in the grubby undistinguished house in London, which was the headquarters of the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services. Otherwise known in various

parts of the world as screwballs, cutthroats, spies, cloak and dagger boys, and and American underground agents. Gentlemen, Operation Flour de Lee has planned to assist the advance of our forces once they've secured a beachhead in Normandy.