ROLE OF WOMEN AND YOUTH

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 39, 10 November 1942, Page 5

ROLE OF WOMEN AND YOUTH

Address By Mrs. Roosevelt (British Official Wiretess.i (Received November 9, 7 p.m.) RUGBY, November 8. In a broadcast tonight which was heard in the United States as well as in Britain, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt summed up the objective tor which Britain and the United States are lighting us “A world which shall be free from cruelty and greed, a world where men should be free to worship God as they see fit. and seek the development of'their own personalities and their own happiness within the limits which safeguard the rights of other human beings to do the same.” She added that in her belief hope lor the future lay in the acceptance by the women and young people of their responsibility. Now and m the. future the youth of all the United Nations would have to awaken and accept full responsibility. It was no easy burden to assume, but if we won the battle over ourselves then the vision of a world ruled by justice and love might become a reality. We had failed in the past because we could not think on international lines. Mrs. Roosevelt praised the • British women for the magnificent way in winch they had assumed their wartime responsibili'ties. She had not met one woman who was not doing a. real job, reqinr g in many cases an eight-hour » dnv. she said. The women of Britain were a very vital factor m the manpower of the nation, and they knew it.