Excerpts: 12-3-41 to 12-7-41 World War ll London Blitz Diary

• Wednesday, December 3, 1941?

The news is shocking; that is to my mind. In Parliament yesterday the Prime Minister outlined proposals for the further mobilization of manpower, and womanpower, ?to achieve the maximum national effort.? For the men, the age for compulsory military service is to be raised from forty-one to fifty-one, and lowered to eighteen and a half and to send them for service abroad at nineteen instead of twenty. For women, unmarried women between twenty and thirty to make compulsory liable to serve in the uniformed auxiliary services or Civil Defense with the rider that women joining A.T.S. will not be compelled to serve with guns, only volunteers may do that! This is outrageous.

• Sunday, December 7, 1941?

The war news remains bad, although the Germans have retreated from Rostov but fighting rages unceasingly in Russia, and also in Libya. Moreover at any moment hostilities may open in the Far East, between Japan and the U.S.A. Yesterday President Roosevelt sent a personal message to the Emperor of Japan, a last attempt to avert war. The Japanese seem bent upon it. They haven?t licked China yet, why should they want to attack America? Hitler compels them I suppose. Isn?t it frightful? This is a crazy world.

It is nine-thirty p.m. and war has started in the Pacific. The Japanese have attacked several U.S.A. bases, particularly Guam and Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii. Treachery, murder, and damnation.

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