The Ladies of Woodbridge

Busy little Miss Wilby was worried.

There was no telling what might be going on, these summer nights, down by the Deben and under the scented hedgerows of Woodbridge. She spoke with Mrs. Juby, the Methodist minister's wife. They decided to organize the Voluntary Vigilantes. Last weekend, just at dark, a dozen earnest matrons equipped with brand-new hats and armbands patrolled in pairs. From time to time their torches (flashlights) stabbed the soft gloom of Suffolk's night. But they found nothing. Undaunted and unconvinced, they decided to make their rounds a little later next time. Explained Mrs. Juby: "Girls everywhere like to go after boys. What we've got to do is be at hand to help them when they find they may be going too far."

Voices from the Poorhouse

Britain's Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin said: ". . . We are broke. It is no use beating around the bush; we have spent everything and I am glad we have."

Britain's Minister of Reconstruction, Lord Woolton, said: "For half a century or more, we spent [i.e., invested] our savings overseas. Now we have sold almost all we had . . . and have incurred overseas debts double the amount of our previous investments."

Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said (to a July 4 gathering of Americans in London): "If I might say so, we are just as much independent of you as you are of us."

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