AID FOR BRITAIN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 263, 27 January 1941, Page 2

AID FOR BRITAIN

An amazing picture of America's most popular pastime—raising money for Britain—is given in the current" issue of the well known pictorial magazine, Life. The magazine devotes several pages of outstanding pictures to the subject with the title: "Here you see a panorama of civilian aid to Britain in the United States' most popu lar and most successful relief efforts. "United in this work,says the magazine, "are 70 separate agencies, big and small. "The best known and most effective nationality is the British War Relief Society,, under the presidency of Mr Winthrop Aldrich. It has raised 4,000,000 dollars and shipped them to England since the war began. "Co-operating in the cause Britain are realists and sentimentalists, people who love England for Shakespeare' and Shelley, people Avlio realise that America's safety depends upon Britain's survival." One of the images of photographs is devoted to a full-page portrait of Gipsy Rose Lee, a well known New York Cabaret entertainer, with nothing on except a costume of twinkling stars. Patrons are allowed to pluck oft' the stars at t'cn dollars a pluck. British.fliers who ferry American bombers across the Atlantic to England are shown selling their autographs to pretty ladies, for a dollar each.