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the Red Cross. Mrs. S. was furious about this, - promptly
wrote a memorandum which went up to the War
Council. And so, last month, welve months later than
[?] have been, they [?] the first course for
60 selected women to be trained as officers - [?]
another 500 started in camp this week, there will
be another 1000 next month - so it will go on.
And the Chitty woman has been sent out again, in command,
the [?] woman carries on. It's amazing, when
you consider the implications of that blunder. Probably, by
now, they could have had 10,000 A.F.S. - that number would
have been doing men's jobs - which would mean that, either
10,000 men would have been released for service /or
lighting, here or in the T.E. - or else that 10,000
men need not have been [?] to [?]
could have come instead. Either of which [?]
might have just made the difference in Libya or
elsewhere. It's hellish, you know. Don't you agree?
The Chitty woman had only to walk in the [?]
of Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv to see with her own
eyes. As for that Mrs High Commissioner - & her
bleak looking husband - they cannot see beyond the
Arabs - see mto go out of their way to [?]
the Jews. For the officers N.C.O. [?] after our
almighty struggle - it seems that they managed to
rake up one Arab girl, who finished the course
as a N.C.O. The other day they had a kind of
[?] affair on the [?] - the only