WINTER QUARTERS
ARMY IN BRITAIN
PLANS FOR WELFARE OF MEN
(British Official Wireless.) * (Received September 21, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, September 20. The War Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, described today the plans for the Welfare during the winter of the vast army quartered in Britain while it waited to fight the offensive, battles which lay ahead. This programme would include the welfare of foreign contingents in Britain. The Army would'be doing hard and active training, and the general object was to make sure that in its leisure j hours it had comforts and distractions. The Army Education^ Corps was being increased with a view to a more vigorous attack upon boredom and to stimulating thought, will, and imagination. Entertainments were being organised on a large scale, including drama, vaudeville, cinema, and radio. Local hospitality was being arranged and a very wide organisation had been built up for the provision of personal comforts.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 72, 21 September 1940, Page 12
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