Lord Beaverbrook's appeal to the nation for old pots and pans of alummium has had amazing success. Outside Chelsea. Town Hall a space of bout a quarler of an acre was roped off on which people were invited to dump. their offerings. Inside two days there was a high mound all over of aluminium crocks. Not always: such crocks, either. Many of the things brought were new and good. One shopkeeper gave every piece he had in stock, 889 in all, An old lady gave her aluminium teapot with this verse on a label tied on it:—
Now bring down a Junker inthe sea, Now there have been loud protests from the professional scrap metal merchants, who ask why Lord Beaver brook is asking for aluminium from householders... when they, the merchants, have loads of the metal in their yards. The oficial answer is that the stocks held by the merchants are cast aluminium, and that what wanted for aeroplane manufacture the pure aluminium of the saver pan. OF course this does not end the controversy between the merchants and the officials (such controversies by nature being eternal) and meanwhile the collection from the: Public goes on briskly. There are 1,650 branches of the Women's Voluntary Services, and every one of them. daily receives masses of aluminium.
But what a tribute this is to the willingness of the nation to do all it can to fight the Huns. and how little need there is for the apparent offcial belief that we must be continually preached to, coaxed, and cajoled!
this, as in the Four Years War, the people are far ahead of the Gor: ernment at every step. The only thing they fear is irresolution or timidity in high places. There is no fear of this in Mr, Churchill, like the old Scotch lady, we are Just sure" of some of the other}
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