THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 30, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
-WINDSOR HOUSE:
GERMANY TASTES REAL WAR
It does not make much difference whether the treaty concluded between Russia and Great Britain is technically known as a formal alliance or merely as an "association," "co- belligerency" or "joint action." The treaty in any case embodies what is really essential agreement for mutual assistance and an agree- ment by both parties not to make a separate peace.
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If Hitler is to be defeat- ed, he is obviously more likely to be defeated by collaboration on the part of his opponents than by its absence. If Russia has everything to stop Hitler's drive at some point but one element, and the British are able to supply that element, it would be folly to withhold it for mere ideological rea- Soris. Perhaps what Bri- tain can most quickly. supply are strategists and technicians; and these have already begun to ar- rive. The moral gains on both sides are immediate. It has strengthened Rus- sian morale to have this clear evidence of British help, it will bolster British
When war came to Britain in, morale to have a Russian September, 1939, the women of promise, granted at this England were not wholly unpre- pared. As far back as a year and moment, not to make a half before the outbreak they separate peace. But what- had heard the premonitory rum- blings. Out of their awareness ever help the British give was born the Women's Voluntary to Russia will doubtless Services, with a present enroll- ment of close to a million. Also be extended not on senti- there is the Housewife's Service,
organised their own mental but on cold-blood- numbering a quarter of a million,
The administrative staff of the which cooperates with two million groups to give immediate train-WV.S. all over Britain numbers ed strategic grounds. It
women in neighbourhood defence. ing. Lessor were given in fire- about 3,500 members, and of all is a policy not of "aid Their story goes like this: fighting.t ad, home nursing, these women only sixty-seven
"What the government needs is ambulanc driving atı A.R.P.
are paid. The unpaid workers Russia" but of "stop Hit-
a maid-of-all-work," said Sir work all over Britain. Draft
are treated the same as the paid ler" that will have the Samuel Hoare, the Home Secre- lectures and memoranda kept
ones. They hold a letter of ap- clouds gathered in
pointment from the chairman widest British and Ameri-tary, as war
Europe. "And who but women
providing that a month's notice be can support.
can provide that service?"
given either way. Nothing is left to chance and every worker pos- sesses a keen sense of respon-
for sibility. Expenses
equip- ment, postage, heat and lighting in offices are paid by the govern- ment; and the W.V.S. has a pur- chasing department possessing a
cence to buy "ex quota."
TROJAN HORSE-SLIGHTLY SHOPSOILED
Victoria Would Be Surprised
British
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On top of these suc-
He culled Lady Reading, widow cesses the
are of the one-time Viceroy of India, pounding Western Ger- to discuss the recruiting of women
for civil defence, That was in
many as never before. May. 1938. All that he really Regardless of the out-expected to get out of the meet-
ing was the cooperation of women
the country at that time.
don't you think it would be
"May I run a canteen?" In Tothill Street,
or
local residents. The W.V.S stone's opera as the government and throw from the Houses of Parlia- local athorities. It undertakes ment, where the W. V. S. estab-work only at their request lished headquarters, these ques-with their approval. A wife 1 tions were answered a thousand every sense of the word!-At the times a day.
wedding of the government and the W.V.S, the word "obey" was left in the service.
With the local authorities, the Borough Councils and the govern- ment, the women consulted for days on end. Schools, offices and factories
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come in Russia, the Nazis with the Air-Raid Precautions pace with the rapidly changing Another branch of the W.VS. was sweeping conditions. The organisation which shies away from 'the beyond doubt are suffer- movement which
grew with every emergency and domestic role is the committee that ing very heavy casualties "Now if bombs should fall, produced
a limitless supply of deals in shipping and in forward- there. The German peo- good idea to have women instructing, without acknowledgment or from
a competent women who were willing and dealing with goods sent overseas for distribution. ple themselves are at last householders to protect themselves pay, to give help in any part of Lady Reading is personally res- he asked the country where it was needed. ponsible for overseas and pur- beginning to taste the full and the community?"
Lady Reading And don't you
chasing departments, and it is she! THESE FACTS MAKE horrors of war. For the think that women should take
who deals, directly with the What England got out of that
American Red Cross. Five to first time since the war jobs in the Air-Raid Precautions
own local dis meeting Services in their
was--more than a eight boatloads of supplies leave began, the Nazis lack air tricts?"
maid-of-all-work-a wife. Who
American shores for England superiority over all DC-
Lady Reading agreed. It was but a wife could cook, nurse, sew, an excellent plan in fact it wash dishes, knit, drive ambul-weekly. To date 309 ships bear- ing 910 consignments of clothing. cupied points. They are was so good that the organisation ances, manage clothing depots, run boots, layettes and relief goods getting the kind Of came into being then and there canteens-mobile and stationery had been received and distributed
with the weighty title of Women's ones-scrub children, hunt billets, and that in spite of Hitler's U punishment with which Voluntary Services for Air-Raid evacuate children and old people boats. Only eleven cargoes had
from untenable areas? Who but a
been lost. they have so often threat- Precautions.
When news of the founding of wife could advise the govern ened others. They can no the organisation was made known ment how to spend money to the Mushroom growth
to the WM.S. From longer bully the rest of it was as if a three-bell fire alarm best advantage? As the scope of attributed.
had been rung throughout Britain the work increased the name of the original membership of five the world with impunity. solely for the ears of the women: the organisation was changed to women to the present enrollment They may yet win in Rus-The response was overwhelming Women's Voluntary Services for of almost a million the progress Inquiries floodee headquarters Civil Defence. Abbreviated to was gradual. The group works with an advisoryouncil of re- sia, after greater sacri-in London. Ailation with only W.V.S. that name has stuck.
over sixty When the government filvided presentatives fron." 'fices than they had the Air-Raid Precautions limited
the duties of these women to work England, Scotland and Wales into women's organisations in the coun counted upon. But the in first-aid posts, auxiliary fire thirteen regions, each of which try-religious political, profès- conquest of Britain now services, report points and at was provided with a nucleus sional, social including Girl
ambulance driving. It wasn't government in case of break- Guldes and women's institutes.
Nor can the W.V.S. be called seems more remote than enough. The women asked for down of communications, the
charge was part of the army. It is a civilian at any time in the last more work to do a variety of commissioner in
work, any kind of work. They given, as his opposite number, a wartime organisation. It includes twelve months; and wished to serve their country. American aid to Britain What can I do about national
defence?"!
has increased from a trickle to an ever-broad ening stream,
cannot be
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Under each regional administra- their time to making themselves. tor are topposite numbers in each useful and alleviating distress. It "Where do I go to take a of the local authorities the chain has not a colonel for sergeant extending from County Councils major. It has no drills, no salutes, course in first aid?"
"Do you give lessons in home right down to villago and even no army discipline. It dispenses nursing?",
hamict representatives. All are, (Continued on "Prus:"