At War44-02-0134The White Brigade

From this moment you belong to the Belgian underground. You must never speak of your work. One word can cost lives. And we silence tongues permanently. When you join us, you'll give up everything. Family, honor, friends, money.

They're all secondary. If you think you can't sacrifice everything, including yourself, you can still withdraw. I'm ready. ready. All right. Do you swear to submit yourself to the orders of the White Brigade, to obey them without question, to devote all your energies to the liberation of Belgium and the destruction of the German Army, to accept the discipline of the White Brigade, and to pay

with your life for any betrayal, voluntary, accidental, or forced? I swear it. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with the Council on Books in War Time, presents another program of words at war which brings to radio important war books. Tonight we present the White Brigade, a radio play based on the recent book by Robert Goughton. Jean Boucher

walks slowly down the streets of Nivelle in Belgium. He's returning home after an unsuccessful attempt to escape to England. Only 18 days Belgium has been overthrown, destroyed, and bled white. He walks aimlessly through the top. In the middle of what had been a square, German soldiers are taking pictures of their hand-lover. Finally, unable to hold back any

more from the dreaded moment when he may find that his wife and child are gone or dead, he... John. John. Oh, John. I don't. Denise. The French police stopped me at the border. Nolly. Nolly. Yes, sir. Oh, and little one. Oh, Denise. I've been so afraid, John. So afraid.

I was afraid too, Denise. For you. I didn't know what I'd find here. Thank God. Yes, darling. Thank God. But what will happen now? John, is that you? Yes, Paul.