The Archive · 1939

Justice, Humanity, Right

I shall behold, whenever I please, the faces of British youth in uniform; handsome, cleareyed, cheery—wholesome, wholesome, wholesome. Too fine to lose; too fine to die! I shall recall the women, young and old, in uniform; a trig, handsome girl of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force; a g like anything. Verey lights were go= machine-gun began at first, in the Brussels, Dec. 26.

A message of gratitude for the loyalty and" abnegation shown by Belgian servicemen through the period of crisis and war was addressed to the Army today by King Leopold of he ili of the^new year,"

"stated, to address my best wishes 29 the officers, non-commission~ and privates of the Army 2) last families, and eir to to the ^next "I know ofthe sacrifices that ser-Ger-vice to the country has imposed in recent months, especially on recalled sand their near ones, and I

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