AID FOR BRITAIN
YOUNG AMERICA'S PART NEW YORK, Jan. 14 The school and college division of the British War Relief Society in New York is receiving hundreds of letters from young people in Britain who want "pen friends" of their own age in the United States. Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt (her husband is a cousin of the President) is the National Director of the Society. Here is part of a typical letter written hy a little Londoner who is evacuated to Wales to the friends she has never seen 011 the other side of the Atlantic: "Thank you for the dress you sent me from United States I am ten years old and I am in the m>e green grass country. We are away from old man Nasty. He won't come here, 1 hope. Ho spoiled our home, killed my pussy cat, broke my dolly. God will punish him." All the thousands of letters received will be answered by the members of "Younc America wants to help," who have already raised £30.000 to alleviate distress in Britain
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24203, 19 February 1942, Page 8
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176AID FOR BRITAIN New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24203, 19 February 1942, Page 8
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