GUARDS AT CAPITOL
UNUSUAL PRECAUTIONS WOMEN DEMONSTRATE AID BILL OPPOSED (Reed. Feb. 27, 2.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. Unusual precautions to protect the Capitol have been taken, partly as a result of demonstrations against the lend-or-lease bill, mostly staged by elderly neurotic women. . Guards were formerly on duty from 8.. a.m. to, midnight. They now have been placed at all entrances on a 24-hour basis. A group of ,40 women waved flags and signs variously inscribed, including: “Send Halifax Home.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20492, 28 February 1941, Page 9
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80GUARDS AT CAPITOL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20492, 28 February 1941, Page 9
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