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22 February 2017

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This was part of the Ministry of Information’s ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ 1940-41 campaign. Many people took no notice. But presumably one reason Vere Hodgson sent her ‘diary’ as letters to relations oversees was because of the fear of invasion, or spies searching her room in Notting Hill.

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