WOMEN AND WAR
To The Editor, "The Listener," Sir,-As I sat reading over "Farewell to Soldiers" in last week’s Listener, I suddenly paused and
thought what selfishness there is in lots of women (myself included). Over and over again I’ve said that I would rather bear more children (I have two small boys), than let my husband go to war, knowing perhaps that he would never come back. I do not think of the hundreds — no, thousands — of other young men who have left homes, wives, and children — never to return. Far better to save New Zealand, always a free country, than that the selfishness of women should be put first. Yet, as I write this, I know that I could not bear to have my husband parted from me. What sentimental fools women are! Yours, etc.,
B.D.
J.
Weheka, South Westland, January 19, 1940.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 33, 9 February 1940, Page 10
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