Major Manus, a Canadian, who greeted me with ‘Dr. Jones? Good God! I thought that you were dead!’ When I asked him why, he replied, ‘I gave orders for you to be shot!’ It turned out that he had previously been on the Planning Staff for the Dieppe Raid, and he had understood that I myself was going on the Raid. He had therefore detailed two men to guard me as far as possible but had also ordered them to shoot me if I were about to be captured by the Germans, because with my knowledge I was such a security risk. He told me that he had not been on the Raid himself, but that he had been waiting to
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