CHILDREN AND WAR
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —I wish to protest strongly at what I consider to be a misguided, if well-meant, attempt of some grown-ups who are using your columns to force the little ones to give up their Guy Fawkes fun this year, and put their pennies into a war fund instead. If this scheme is adopted I suppose we shall be expected to ask Father Christmas to put a subscription list into the children's stockings instead of toys!
Let us keep the little ones out of this war, and anything to do with war, as far as we adults are able. After all, the mess which the world is in today is of our making and not that of our children. I may make myself unpopular in certain quarters, but if their broadcast talks on children and the war are any criterion, I should have the moral support of both the Hon. Mr. Mason and the Director of Education. —I am, etc.,
MOTHER OF FOUR,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 86, 8 October 1940, Page 6
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168CHILDREN AND WAR Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 86, 8 October 1940, Page 6
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