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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21963, 15 May 1941, Page 4

In a broadcast to the Dominions asking for the increased output of munitions, the British Minister of Labour, Mr Ernest Bevin, said:—“May I illustrate this by an incident I saw in a Yorkshire town ? A factory, employing a lot of women, had been badly ‘blitzed.’ The roof had been destroyed; there was no heating. Luckily, most of the machines and raw materials were undamaged. They were engaged in producing an article that the Air Force urgently needed. These girls and women went straight back as soon as their machines could be cleared. They sat in the open, and finished that order, so that delivery might take place and the work of the Air Force not be impeded. So, you sge, we are not asking anybody in the world to do something that we are not ready to do ourselves.” • » • • • The European conflict is a life and death struggle between the spiritual values that are the marrow of our civilisation on the one hand and the forces of evil that are determined utterly to destroy that civilisation.— Mr Harold Ickes.