We can learn much from the example of a country that is much forgotten nowadays—from Republican Spain. Thousands of children were evacuated from Madrid during the war and hundreds of thousands fled from advancing armies. A large proportion of these were gathered together in colonies, in the charge of teachers and matrons. I visited a great number of these children's settlements. The best of them were like first-class boarding-schools. Now, L|one may doubt the benefit of boarding-school life, for middle-class children, see with sorrow boys and girls taken from their natural surroundings into an artificial, regimented existence remote from the problems and stimulus of day-to-day life, but who can doubt that these problems are toc great, the stimulus too harsh for children in the slums, and that escape for them is beneficial Ambulance drivers have not, so far, been given a uniform, but there are rumours that there is one on the way. But in the very first days of the war the girls gave themselves an unofficial one. This was trousers, a sports shirt and a brightly coloured chiffon handkerchief swatched round the head and tied in front.
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