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In October 1941, an urgent cable was received at the Foreign Office in London.

It was this odd story about a man who had been arrested, and I quote here,

in a main street in Madrid, dressed down to a brazier as a woman.

This Englishman wore a floral patterned dress, high heels, stockings, elbow-length gloves, and a turban,

and was carrying a handbag.

While cross-dressing may not have been specifically illegal in Spain at the time, he certainly

caught the attention of the authorities.

It was an outraged public decency, I guess we would have called it in Britain.

During his interrogation, the man told the Spanish police

that he was a novelist

who wanted to study the reactions of men

to women in the street.

But when the British consul visited the man in his cell,

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