1941-07-30 — Page 7

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 an agreement for mutual assistance and an agree- ment by both parties not to make a separate peace.

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BLITZKRIEG

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- sons. Perhaps what Bri- tain can most quickly supply are strategists and technicians; and these have already begun to ar- rive. The moral gains ou both sides are immediate. It has strengthened Rus- sian morale to have this clear evidence of British help, it will bolster British

The W.V.S. co- When war came to Britain in, "May I run a canteen?" morale to have a Russian September, 1930, the women

il Street, stone's operates with the government and promise, granted at this England were not wholly unpre- throw from the Houses of Parlia- local authorities. It undertakes. moment, not to make a pared. As far back as a year and ment, where the W. V. S. estab-work only at their request or

a half before the outbreak they lished headquarters, these ques- with their approval. A wife 1

At the tjons were answered a thousand every sense of the word! separate peace. But what- had heard the premonitory rum-

wedding of the government and blings. Out of their awareness times a day. ever help the British give

was born the Women's Voluntary

the W.V.S. the word "obey" was: to Russia will doubtless Services, with present enroll-

left in the service. Also be extended not on sentiment of close to a million.

there is the Housewife's Service, mental but on cold-blood- numbering a quarter of a million, ed strategic grounds. It which cooperates with two million women in neighbourhood defence. is a policy not of "aid Their story goes like this: Russia" but of "stop Hit- ler" that will have the Samuel Hoare, the Home Secre- lectures and

clouds gathered in widest British and Ameri-tary, as war

Europe. "And who but women can provide that service?"

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With the local authorities, the Borough Councils and the govern- ment, the women consulted for days on end. Schools, offices and

organised their own The administrative, staff of the factories

W.V.S. all over Britain numbers groups to give immediate train- ing. Lessons were given in fre- about 3,500 members, and of all fighting, Arst aid, home nursing, these women only sixty-seven driving and A.R.P. ure paid. The unpaid workers ambulance

Draft are treated the same as the paid

kept ones.

They hold a letter of ap- chairman pointment from the providing that a month's notice be given either way. Nothing is left to chance and' every worker pos- sesses a keen sense of respon- On top of these suc- He called Lady Reading, widow

sibility. Expenses for equip- the British are of the one-time Viceroy of India,

ment, postage, heat and lighting in offices are paid by the govern- That for civil defence. pounding Western Ger- to discuss the recruiting of women was in

ment; and the W.V.S. has a pur- All that he really many

never before. May, 1938.

chasing department possessing a expected to get out of the meet-

licence to buy "ét quota." out- Regardless of the

ing was the cooperation of women

Another branch of the W.V.S; the Air-Raid Precautions pace with the rapidly changing come in Russia, the Nazis with

shies

from the away organisation which was sweeping | conditions. movement which

The beyond doubt are suffer-

the country at that time.

grew with every emergency and domestic role is the committee that "Now if bombs

of deals in shipping and in forward- should fall, produced a limitless supply ing very heavy casualties)

don't you think it would be competent women who were willing and dealing with goods sent overseas for distribution. there. The German peo- good idea to have women instructing, without acknowledgment or from 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

chasing departments, and it is sheTHESE FACTS MAKI beginning to taste the full and the community?"

“And don't you Lady Reading.

with the who deals directly take horrors of war. For the think that women should

"What England got out of that

American.. Red Cross. Five to jobs in the Air-Raid Precautions

was- more first time since the war services in their

than eight boatloads of supplies leave own local dis- meeting

. Who maid-of-all-work-a wife.

American shores for England began, the Nazis lack air tricts?"

Lady Reading agreed, It was but a wife could cook, nurse, sew weekly. To date, 369: ships/ bear- superiority over all oc- an excellent plan - in fact it, wash dishes, knit, drive ambul

boots; layettes and relief goods cupied points. They are was so good that the organisation ances, manage clothing depots, runing 910 consignments of clothing, kind of came into being then and there canteens-mobile and stationary had been received and distributed getting the

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 they have so often threat-Precautions.

When news of the founding of wife could advise the govern

- Mushroom growth cannot be ened others. They can no the organisation was made known ment how to spend money to the longer bully the rest of it was as if a three-bell fire alarm best advantage? As the scope of attributed to the W.V.S. From had been rung, throughout Britain the work increased the name of the original membership of five million the progréss the world with impunity. solely for the ears of the women; the organisation was changed to women to the present enrollment Abbreviated to was gradual. The group works They may yet win in Rus-The response was overwhelming Women's Voluntary Services for of almost a

with an advisory council of res Inquiries flooded the headquarters Civil Defence.

over sixty sia, after greater sacri-in London: Affliation with only WVS, that name has stuck fices than they had the Air-Raid Precautions Umited When the government divided presentatives from

the duties of these women to work England, Scotland and Wales into women's organisations in the coun counted upon. But then first aid posts, auxiliary Are thirteen regions, each of which try religious political, profes

and at was provided with a nucleus sional, social including Girl-

in case of break- Guides and women's institutes. conquest of Britain now services, report points

ambulance driving. It wasn't government

Nor' can the W.V.S. be called seems more remote than enough. The women asked for down of communications, the at any time in the last more work to do a variety of commissioner in charge whs part of the army. It is a civilian work, any kind of work. They given, as his opposite number, a wartime organisation. It includes and wished to serve their country. W.VIS: regional administrator twelve months; American aid to Britain "What can I do about national

defence?" has increased from al

"Where do I go to take a trickle to an ever-broad course in first aid?" ening stream.

been lost.

women who give all on part of

Under each regional administra their time to making themselves. tor are opposite numbers. in each useful and alleviating distress. It of the local authorities the chain has not a colonels or sergeant extending from County Councils major,. It has no drills, no salutes, "Do you give lessons in home right down to village and even no army discipline, it disperses 'nursing?"

hamlet representatives All gro

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