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Rorimer recounts his initial meetings with Rose Valland in Paris.
"I for one was certain that Rose Valland could tell more than we could learn elsewhere if she only would. Was she leading me on for some reason I could not fathom? ...
"A year later... I was to learn the reason for her tactics. She had learned to trust no one... she had suffered too much for her country's welfare to permit anyone to use her or her material for their own personal gain... Only by keeping complete control... could Rose be sure that worthy people, truly consumed with the same desire for truth and decency as herself, would help bring back to France the works of art she had seen taken from their owners." |