SOCIAL PROGRESS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 96, 23 April 1940, Page 14

SOCIAL PROGRESS

TRIBUTE TO ENGLISHWOMEN

' Englishwomen's supreme trust in the future, their courage, and their great faith were described at ameeting yesterday of the Women's Spciai Progress Movement by Miss Evelyn Watson, who is not long back after 15 months abroad. Miss Watson left England on the outbreak of war but before her departure noticed much to commend, particularly in the way in which women had received evacuees into their homes and billeted soldiers without any hesitation or thought of self.

For her the' Thames was symbolic of England and England's spirit, Miss Watson said. It combined the ugly and the beautiful, the past and the^ present day, and these were welded" by a great spirit of progress in .which, reverence of the past, and of religion, were omnipresent. The speaker .was. secretary' of the central group before the movement's amalgamation, and was given a lovely floral. posy' by a fellow-member.

Posies, made by Mrs. R. -A. Wright, Mrs. Rowe, and Mrs. Alec: tTawson' were presented to Miss Laurie Ander T son; who played violin solos, to Miss Marjorie Bennie, who sang, and to Mrs. .E. A. R. Jones, the accompanist. Mrs. James Bennie presided at the meeting, which, was held in the Eng-lish-speaking" Union rooms. Afternoon tea was served by Mesdames M. Murray. 'V. Recce, and H. Steptoe, and Misses E. Richardson, Millar, Schramm, W. Thompson, and Chappell, all members of the former central group. ;

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