The Government's schemes for evacuating all children from London if war comes have met with an unexpected yet, if you come to think of it, very natural obstacle. The mothers say they don't want their children to go unless they can go with them. In fact, the mothers of children under five would go with them. But then who is going to look after the fathers while the mothers are away? Besides, there are still a good many years over the age of five during Which a mother would feel worried about entrusting a child to total strangers. There are 16,000,000 homes whose owners would be willing to receive children, But there is no possibility of saying beforehand to Which of these a child will be sent, nor even that all the children of one family would be sent to the same house.
'Numbers of London mothers have refused to register their children for evacuation and there is no power that can make them. In the House of Commons on' Wednesday, Mr. Elliot, the Minister of Health, explained all the complicated details of the Government's evacuation scheme. One point he stressed was that private arrangements for billeting children would, if the Ministry thought fit, be But
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