6 SEPTEMBER 1940, Page 14

CHILDREN FOR AMERICA •

Stit,—Most of us are agreed that it is desirable to safeguard our children from the danger and horror of war. And all the good reasons for removing English children from the turmoil apply equallY to French, Belgian, Dutch or, indeed, any other children. I read that there are four million homes in the U.SA. alone waiting to welcome these young evacuees.

We have reason to believe that conditions on the Continent in the near future will be worse than they are here. If only we or the U.S.A. could offer to take children, of whatever nationality, 10 a place of safety—what a marvellous gesture that would be!

Moreover, these men and women of the next generation II ould have learned to live at peace with one another, and would not have imbibed the bitterness of the defeated nor the arrogance of the victor.—Yours faithfully,