Soldiers everywhere are conspicuous. The recruiting for the Territerials has been excellent Many units in London and the provinces Gre already up to the full strength asked for by the Government only last week, and are rapidly on the way to doubling their numbers. Thousands of men are spending the Laster holidays in camp and employers are making a good response by promising full pay and ample leave for men to do their training.
"The propaganda machine is working full blast, in newspapers, cinemas and posters. But the people who drew up the posters for the base of the Nelson column (something like "National service: the call to you," X forget the exact wording) have Surely missed a great opportunity. On such a monument the message that should have been used is surely obvious, children to school, says the L.C.C., will be regarded as not wishing to have them evacuated. There remains the difficulty obstinate in many minds, that it is simply impossible to evacuate such a city as London. And when one thinks of the vast crowds that throng all streets and trains in the "rush hours" of an ordinary business day, that difficulty seems almost to amount to impossibility.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.