Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare Scan: 121 Volume 6: May 5, 1916 (Boxmoor) - December 10, 1916 (Sutton Veny)
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1916 October 3 - Sutton Veny - p.4
OK, have to copy this:
"England jolly well needed this war, and don't you forget it - she was
just a bit too self-complacent ... she forgot to look in her own big
towns to make sure she was still breeding the kind of men to keep
up her proud traditions. Perhaps now that her best men are being
killed off, and the unfit either weeded out or trained into being men, she
will wake up and go in for child-welfare and the preservation of the race."
[She mixes up "breeding" with "child rearing", and even "social conditions
for adults", to our eyes. Historians can conclude whether the fluidity of
these words to her are just her limited understanding, or a characteristic
of her time...]
Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare Scan: 121 Volume 6: May 5, 1916 (Boxmoor) - December 10, 1916 (Sutton Veny)