FRANCE: Women At Work

(See Cover) Only a fraction of British man power—less than 1,000,000 men—is in uniform.

Full-time "war work" for British women therefore means little more than that if one cares to volunteer one can play at more or less romantic war activities in a jaunty uniform.

In France it has been a different story.

Five million Frenchmen are now in uniform. Although Germany has some 6,000,000 men under arms, the Reich is almost twice as populous as France, has nothing like the same man power shortage on the home front. Thus there has been...

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