TWO BLACK BABIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1939, Page 12

TWO BLACK BABIES

AN EVACUATION COMEDY. When three million women and children move en masse into new homes it becomes, and remains, - Britain’s big talking point. And here is the best story from the reception areas, states the ‘Sunday Express,’ London. There were two picaninnies, a boy and a girl, among the batch of children from London. And no one in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, would take them in. The billeting officer took them from house to house, but it was the same answer everywhere. Excuses, more excuses.

“This colour bar is unfair,” he thought, as he looked down into the two dusky, trusting faces. “Dashed if I won’t take them home myself.” His wife was charmed with them. They had obviously been well cared for at home. Their clothes, she noticed. were hand-made.

Undressing the little girl that night, she found an envelope pinned securely to her petticoat. It read simply: “To the woman who undresses my children to-night, with thanks for looking after them. God bless you.” Enclosed was £5O!

The money, is .now.. in the bank, to be used for the children’s food, clothes, and schooling.