WAR TIME WORK FOR AMERICAN WOMEN
(8.0. W.) RUGBY, Nov. 18. Mrs Roosevelt, at her press conference to-day in Washington, said that her month’s tour of Britain had convinced her that American women could materially shorten the war by working harder, particularly by taking over civilian jobs and thus releasing men for the armed services and factory work which women were not able to do. Her most immediate impression of Britain was the complete way in which living had been changed for everyone —in Buckingham Palace or in a Clyde cottage. Her second outstanding impression was what the black-out really meant.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23800, 20 November 1942, Page 5
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