WOMEN & YOUTH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1942, Page 3

WOMEN & YOUTH

— — TASK OF ESTABLISHING BETTER WORLD MRS ROOSEVELT BROADCASTS. HOPE IN THE ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY. (British Official Wireless.) 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 for which Britain and the United States are fighting as “A world which shall be free from cruelty end 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 for the future lay in the acceptance by the women and young people of their responsibility. Now and in 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 Bntisn women for the magnificent way in which they had assumed their war time responsibilities. She had not met one woman who was not doing a real job, requiring in many cases an eighhour working day, she said. The women of Britain were a very vital factor in the manpower of the nation, ana they knew it.