Word: children
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some five years, preparation for war has been part of the education of every child in Europe. Last week Europe's children carried out their M-Day assignments...
Paris began to evacuate its children to the country on Wednesday. Carrying dolls, knapsacks and Government-supplied gas masks, young Parisians, with their mothers, crowded the railroad stations, whooped and scampered, set off in trains and taxis for safety zones, where many a Parisian family had prudently rented and provisioned a shelter in advance...
...Berlin's children there was no evacuation. Schools were closed but children began each day with gas mask drill, prepared, if and when air raids came, to scurry to bomb shelters...
...Warsaw's children were least prepared. Lacking bombproof shelters or gas masks, the city's tots manned shovels and joined their mothers in digging trenches. When, at dawn Friday, the bombs began to fall, on a children's asylum, a refugees' train, thousands of women and children fled from Warsaw to the country, thousands more fled from the country into Warsaw...
London was most thoroughly prepared. It planned to evacuate its 650,000 school children, school by school, into "safe" areas, billet them with rural families, teach them in rural schools on double shifts. On Monday, when London's schools opened for the fall term, its school children had a dress rehearsal. Instead of books, each child brought to school a gas mask and a knapsack (for some a pillowcase had to do) containing a change of underwear, spare stockings, pajamas, toothbrush, towel, soap, comb, 48-hours rations, milk, canned beef, biscuits, chocolate bars. Excused from lessons, pupils played...