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- Selwyn_Jepson abstract "Selwyn Jepson (1899–1989) was a British author, of the Far House, Farther Common, Liss, Hants.His father was the mystery/detective author Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863–1938), his mother was Frieda Holmes, daughter of the musician Henry Holmes. His sister Margaret (1907–2003; see the Times obituary [1]), also a novelist, was the mother of Fay Weldon.Jepson was schooled at St. Paul's School, London and the Sorbonne. He served in the Tank Corps during World War I and in the Special Operations Executive, SOE, in World War II.In his SOE role, "Captain" Selwyn Jepson was recruiting officer for F section, the independent French section. As a recruiter he was one of SOE's "most skilled craftsmen" (see Foot, below), and according to (??) he was SOE's senior recruiting officer. When interviewed by the Imperial War Museum he stated:"I was responsible for recruiting women for the work, in the face of a good deal of opposition, I may say, from the powers that be. In my view, women were very much better than men for the work. Women, as you must know, have a far greater capacity for cool and lonely courage than men. Men usually want a mate with them. Men don't work alone, their lives tend to be always in company with other men. There was opposition from most quarters until it went up to Churchill, whom I had met before the war. He growled at me, "What are you doing?" I told him and he said, "I see you are using women to do this," and I said, "Yes, don't you think it is a very sensible thing to do?" and he said, "Yes, good luck to you." That was my authority!"M.R.D. Foot's SOE contains an illuminating account of Jepson's interview style with potential recruits; "I have to decide whether I can risk your life and you have to decide whether you're willing to risk it" (p. 73). According to Foot, of F section's 470 agents sent into the field, 117 were killed; 39 of the 470 were women, of whom 13 failed to return.As an aside Foot comments that captain, RN was a rank Jepson sometimes affected but to which he was not entitled ("...but the Admiralty never knew"), rather he was "a major in the Buffs" (evidently the East Kent Regiment, see e.g. [2]). This may or may not square with references to service in the Tanks Corps; in any case it's indicative of Jepson's personal style.".
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