The census of billeting possibilities in the reception areas, which was now nearly finished, had involved visits by 100,000 volunteers to 5,000,000 houses, and Mr. Elliot said that he considered that the enrolment of this "army of volunteer helper: on such a scale, and at such short notice, was a "great testimony to the spirit of national service.
Returns to hand so far showed a splendid response on the part of householders in the reception areas, who had shown a ready desire to help children who would be exposed to the serious effects of air attack, if left in the crowded areas of large citi.
Already; he thought, they might that in two months the householders of the country, without any compulsion, had shown that the most difficult of evacuation problems—that of the unaccompanied child—could be, and had been, solved.
The survey, and the response already made to it, gave good grounds for believing that there would be little, if any, need to appeal to compulsory powers of billeting which, the Government had announced, they ould assume in an emergency.
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