The Archive · 1941

Crossing the Ocean

It should be a source of great satis-Soup and Sandwiches faction to Britain that the loss of And now, what about our colonies? Our colonies gre n better" when "We The eight Queen's Messenger Food Convoys which rush food and drink 1o the "blitzed" areas of Britain have been in action a The list of their which is to be inscribed on each

visited amd.pided, grows longer and Vias canteen in the names of areas longer. Conventry, East Ham. Barking Plymouth, Nottingham. Liverpool, London, etc.

Film and stage stai business peo ple, housewives, domestic worker and it is seldom that they finish before 10 at night. One day the Queen's per ess materials is crossing the Atlantic amd. other find American and seas to Dominion markets. Among them Harris tweeds which look like twills and are specially woven by the crofters of the Outer Hebrides for American markets.

In their island homes sixty miles off the West Coast of Scotland. these SPofiers refuse to be disturbed by sirens and "continue working their looms through any alarms. ey are prong of the fact that they contributed more men to the fighting Services for the size of their community than any other area.

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