British Women Demand Right to Fight Invader
% LONDON, April 19. A resolution urging the Government to organise the ppoulation irrespective of sex for resistance against an invader was passed to-day at a rally of units of the Women’s Home Defence Movement. Miss Edith Summerskill, M.P., founder of the movement, said there were still people who thought women's role, even in wartime, was to sit in drawing-rooms and look glamorous, but 90 per cent, of the Home Guard believed that men and women should stand shoulder to shoulder in total war. Lieutenant-General Sir W. D. S. Brownrigg said that, as an officer in the Home Guard, he was not permitted to open drill-halls for use by women, but he could not provent Home Guards from teaching their wives how to use the rifle.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 93, 21 April 1942, Page 5
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