CANADIAN GIRL

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1943, Page 6

CANADIAN GIRL

FIRST BRITISH WOMAN DIPLOMAT;

Miss Mary Craig 'McGeachy (pronounced McGay-hey), Great Britain s first woman diplomat^ first secretary 'of the British Embassy at Washington, says her job is "grim and mysterious. She is thirty-seven years of age, a tall, golden blonde with blue' eyes and .a beautiful complexion. People who know her ■ well enough to call her by her first.name call her by. her sec.ond, Craig. There were too many "Marys in school:: when she; attended the University of Toronto. : . : ••■■ Her job as first secretary, really commenced about a year and a half, ago when she went to the U.S.A. from.London, where she.had been working with the Ministry of Economic Warfare. She was asked to go to the United States because ■ she had been there. so. much and-knew, the people pi America. • Her. career; started when she; first :went to -Europe for:a ? holiday,..and .as an.-officer of the Canadian Student 'Movement for a Switzerland cbnfer'ence. She toured France, Germany, Austria, - and , several other countries to ■■■- see activities of the European Student Relief set up to help keeo universities' alive after the; first • World War.1 Then she started working with the league, in charge of Canadian contacts. Unwillingly she returned when ;war broke out. Her brother is a Royal ■Canadian engineer -in' England. '

JUST A HARD WORKER. , : Miss Craig McQeachy: is not a feminist nor a politician, .but a hard worker. She has just returned to after;

spending four months in England, and is> full of 'enthusiasm; -which;-she sajte comes from observing, tt^mendous courage aprj' competence. -?-^.-': :■ "■■^'^*- . She .watted-. women—the A.X.§?W manning the prediction; machinery :jp| the antteqraffc guns, telling, thef igp Vvliat range &M when to.shOot §}|ft >Vas particularly impressed: wiw ■■?»• way thfe r-menand women work $9' vtsl together'faking each other for grfntgd, as if thßirwar work were.in acpJlege labofa1ioi«;!":!Slie> never ■ tires 4 pineal-; i ing \ th^ IStov b;f; the rsuccessvpfpri^ :women/ in-tneir war work;' both those in i. utiuormeld ? servicies /andy tßpse V|P field W^aeltoty; $aying: ; ''They;!^^ wonderful ?wpimen of toddy." ■■•«■. • «J' ■ I^is^|Wc«Se^ny's;'WasbMg^ fjs -*a -rotnaiitlc:'-^little old^-noiiseif^iDi borrowed«:from the storerooms «jQi -■ friend^!^ ? ms-^ PM^d! .Metbff mpderhvan^' old things■■.m'Mwf^.WMg outshi^&yUie-:'wpitk■■: of -.a v,-^t^^ijo^ :de'c;praj|ipif<;'He^;/chenSh"ed;:^po§ ;are \ pieiSe^joJE/ American^ pr^ttery;:-l|t|6st 56f whicliisp^;-v^t-^t^ana|#^ from the^-sl&'t"where it^jg. ;^d^;V'S)ie collected? pottery v in :/Kui^pe^^-top, while wprjjirig' for the;• League -,of Nations,: atidf she krio\vs the difference between-North; Carolina1-and Kentucky 'pottery./V?: (■': '..•'. : .-;/-." ~':■/'■•::'^, \ - v.-'^:-