LADIES IN THE FRONT LINE
Even the most passionate or cockeyed feminist cannot but agree that the War Office is right to keep wompn sharpshooters out of the L.D.V., however good they are with a rifle. Apart from possible questions of etiquette on the barricades (“ Arthur, you fired before Mrs Harbottle ”), their presence in battle would be disturbing. The precedent of St. Joan does not apply because, apart from being inspired by heaven, she did not—correct us if ignobly wrong—wield any lethal weapon in action; her presence and direction were enough. Jeanne Ilachette twirled a pretty axe at the siege of Bordeaux some years later, they say, but we suspect her legend has been embroidered: she was probably more of a nuisance than a blessing to the troops, if the truth were known.—D. B. WyndhamLewis, in the ‘ Bystander,’ London.
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Evening Star, Issue 23681, 14 September 1940, Page 3 (Supplement)
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139LADIES IN THE FRONT LINE Evening Star, Issue 23681, 14 September 1940, Page 3 (Supplement)
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