VICTORY PLEDGE

Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22063, 9 September 1941, Page 6

VICTORY PLEDGE

Women’s Message To World (Rec. 7.21 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 7. British women from every service, vocation, trade and social employment combine in a message to a mass meeting of Russian women who broadcast to-day from Moscow a message addressed to women of the world. Typical signatures to the message from British women, in addition to those serving with the forces and civil defence services, are those of a member of the House of Commons, bus conductors, an education authority, an actress, telephone operators, a college principal, postwomen, a tractor driver and an architect.

The message was: "We the women of Britain, welcome the Soviet women as our comrades in the struggle of all free peoples against the Nazi menace. Day and night in our homes and in the armed forces we stand, like you, beside our men in the front line. We were stirred and encouraged by your heroism and steadfastness. We shall listen to the broadcast with eager interest and in a firm belief that our joint efforts will help to bring victory to our cause. We look forward to the day when the women of the world will play their part in building a future of freedom, stability and justice for all mankind.” The Soviet women’s appeal, to which similarly representative signatures were attached, included the following sentences: "On behalf of the millions of Soviet women we appeal to you and to the united efforts of the whole world for the destruction of sanguinary Hitlerism. We are firmly convinced that by our joint effort we will succeed in making the slogan ‘women of the world—on to the struggle against Hitlerism' resound in every town and village in every country and become the watchword of freedom loving women the world over.”

The ap '-1 to women throughout the world to join a common front against Hitler was made at a mass meeting of women i- Mo:..w. The chairwoman was Russian fighter pilot. The speakers included La Pasionaria, w’ o was a prominent figure in the Spanish war. The meeting passed a resolution calling on the women of the world to unite in face of the common danger against Hitler’s outcasts of mankind.