Arrival
Ter Braak arrived by parachute on the night of 2-3 November 1940, landing near Haversham in Buckinghamshire. His parachute was discovered the next day but Ter Braak was not found. He had in fact made his way to Cambridge where he arrived on 4 November. He found lodgings with a landlord and landlady who accepted his story of having come from Holland during the Dunkirk evacuation, and claimed to be working with Free Dutch forces in London on a Dutch newspaper.
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