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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrens. Another able War I veteran runs the Women's Royal Naval Service ("Wrens"), a unit of 2,000 who work at naval bases as cooks, bookkeepers, cipherers, but none on ships. Their head is Mrs. Laughton Matthews, daughter of Sir John Laughton, the naval historian, and sister of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

WVS had been on its mark to do just that since June 1938. From London headquarters Lady Reading shot twelve telegrams to her twelve regional chiefs (in Britain's twelve autonomous defense zones). They shot 2,000 telegrams to their local branches. From Lands End to John 0'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

No War I veteran but an outstanding post-War civic leader (as member of the Overseas Settlement Board, Imperial Relations Trust, Broadcasting Commission), Lady Reading was last year picked by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare to amalgamate 70 women's groups into one workable body, now numbering half-a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Daughter of a diplomat (Charles Charnaud), secretary, wife and widow of a Viceroy of India, Lady Reading explains the knack of getting big and little things done by the motto she has chosen for WVS: FLEXIBILITY. A plastic and gracious personality, she likes to travel (24,000 mi. on a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Scots ideas of discipline in child training molded the future Queen from birth. In her girlhood as Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, not only was she taught to cook, sew and garden but on certain days, dressed as a housemaid, it was her duty to show tourists the sights of Glamis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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