COUNTRY WOMEN
GALLANT PART IN WAR
RUGBY, June 8.
Appreciation and thanks for the mag" nificent contribution by the Women s Institutes towards winning the war was expressed by the Queen, addressing a conference of the National Federation of Women's Institutes. "Today the place of the country woman is more important than ever before," her Majesty said. "In spite of all the wartime difficulties, it as she who must care for the workers who are growing our food, use her skill to make the best possible use of that food, bring up her children to love and defend those values for which we are fighting, and guide them to love and cherish the beautiful country of which we are so. proud. "Today our villages are sadly empty, the young men are away fighting and the girls, too, are away on war work. The great responsibility of carrying on rests with the older women, and how gallantly they are doing this! When we have won through to peace a great page in the history of Britain's war effort should be devoted to the coun-, try women in this dear land of ours, who, when left to carry on in the villages, have tackled their jobs quietly with zeal and efficiency."—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 136, 10 June 1943, Page 5
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