ALLEGED SNOBBERY.
WOMEN TERRITORIALS. TWENTY-ONE TITLED OFFICERS. I LONDON, November 18. Allegations of snobbery in the women’s auxiliary of the Territorial service were revived by a question asked in the House of Commons by Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Labour member for Jarrow.
Miss Wilkinson wanted to know whether the newlv-formed women’s auxiliary was run on democratic, lines or whether it was not a fact that well-to-do women were getting most of the commissions and executive positions. The Secretary of War, Mr L. HoreBelisha, replied that the auxiliary included 21 titled ladies. He did not think that they had been appointed on their husbands’ recommendations. Miss Wilkinson: Do you think that having 40 per cent of the officers from the narrowest social set is wise in a national force? Are the qualifications of Mayfair hostesses the only ones necessary?
Mr Hore-Bclisha : A grave injustice is being done to these public-spirited ladies to say that they suffer from disqualifications. They are not confined to one social order. Lady Aston Is Miss Wilkinson trying to get Labour women into the Territorials? Miss 'Wilkinson: Not while it is in the hands of a social set like yours.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 39, 25 November 1938, Page 5
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