Do not let us speak of darker days; let us rather speak of sterner days. These are not dark days; these are great days—the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

Fighting is vigorously proceeding, and we shall see who can stand the bucketing best — Briton or Boer.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

This war effort could not have been achieved if the women had not marched forward in millions and undertaken all kinds of tasks and work for which any other generation but our own…would have considered them unfitted; work in the fields, heavy work in the foundries and in the shops, very refined work on radio and precision instruments, work in the hospitals, responsible clerical work of all kinds, work throughout the munitions facto- ries, work in the mixed batteries…. Nothing has been grudged, and the bounds of women’s activities have been definitely, vastly, and permanently enlarged.

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