WELFARE OF TROOPS
. THE LEISURE HOURS PREVENTING BOREDOM (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Sept. 20. - The Secretary for War, Mr Anthony Eden, described to-day plans for the welfare during the winter of the vast army quartered in Britain while it waited to fight the offensive battles which lay ahead.
This programme would include the welfare of the foreign contingents in Britain. The Army would be doing hard and training and the general objective was to make sure that in its leisure hours it had comforts and distractions. The Army Education Corps was being increased with a view to a more vigorous attack upon boredom and to stimulate thought, will, and imagination - Entertainments were being organised on a large scale, including drama, vaudeville, kinema and radio; Local hospitality was being arranged, and a very wide organisation had been built up for the provision of personal comforts
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24410, 23 September 1940, Page 8
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