British Women Now Playing Vast Part in Country's War Effort London, May 4.
"If someone asked me to say quickly what ís my outstanding impression of Britain today," said Mr. R. G. Menzies in a broadcast, *I would think of many things—Winston Churchfll, the resolute and supremely eloquent embodiment of British fighting spirit. the splendid boys of the RAF. the factories, surrounded in some cases by wor!: peoples' shattered homes, roaring out their busy answer to the enemy—but above all of Britain's women. Is it possible that not long azo we thought of them as the weaker sex in the passive role of men must work and women must weep'?
"But what do we find now?
Women are conducting a vast war organization with conspicuous success and achieving amazing marvels in war workshops. It marks the begin-ring of a new era which will usher in enormous social and other -changes about which we can only speculate, From the Queen, whose cheerful brave smile has brought comfort to thousands of people in wrecked homes, down to the humblest woman of the East End."—Reuter.
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