MANPOWER: Lesson in Transplanting

Amid strange surroundings, the Duke of Windsor, who is also the Governor of the Bahamas, called on 214 of his constituents last week. The place: a Farm Security Administration camp near Swedesboro, N.J. The constituents: some of the 2,000 Bahamian Negroes brought to the U.S. to help relieve the farm manpower shortage.

The visit was an eloquent demonstration of a fact which the War Manpower Commission is just now learning the hard way: men & women do not respond according to the slide rule. The Duke saw pleasant surroundings: red frame houses, a neat canvas mess tent, a medical clinic, shower...

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