FILM STARS GIVE BOOKS FOR SAILORS
WAR LIBRARY SCHEME HELPS 2000 SHIPS NAVAL MEN ARE GREAT READERS [By Air Mail—Special Correspondent] LONDON. Ist June. Nearly 80,000 books and magazines have now been distributed to 2000 ships under the war library scheme of the Seafarers’ Education Service, a special service for small naval auxiliary craft that have no libraries. “We want all the help we can get in providing books and magazines for the men of the drifters, trawlers, boomwatchers and other craft,” Mr George Knowles, organising secertary, said this week. “The Queen and other members of the Royal Family have been generous-sup-porters. “Indian Princes have contributed, and gifts have come from such stage and film stars as Elisabeth Bergner, George Arliss, Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier. “Naval men and merchant seamen, alike are all great readers, and want all the literature they can get—more than ever now that the war allows them little other relexation. “It is surprising the amount of study that is being carried on at sea in spite of the war. “Since the Admiralty Fleet Order gave official recognition to the College of the Sea the number of students has increased to 104, a large proportion of them being in the Navy-.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 22 June 1940, Page 7
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