“Self-preservation and determination meant she could get away with anything. As her law-abiding, conventionally minded daughter, I secretly envied her this. She was not the clinging-vine type, nor one who could coax sugar from a lemon. Hers was the frontal attack with no inhibitions. She told the Nazis you could not trust Hitler, and they let her go. In the days of chaperones, she hitch-hiked a ride on a French destroyer along the coast of Crete; 'All quite proper, I had my cook with me,' she explained.” FranceSelf DeterminationSelf PreservationNazisVictorian EraWomen S HistoryArchaeologistsCreteHarriet Boyd Hawes Author:Mary Allsebrook
“The gallant captain vacated his cabin for her, and Manna changed her role from cook to chaperone. All most correct. But it was hardly the done thing to cadge a lift on a torpedo boat. Yet she did it twice in a lifetime.” Victorian EraHitchhikingCreteHarriet Boyd HawesFrench GunboatsFrench MilitaryTorpedo Boats Book:Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes Source: Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes