p. 74 Thursday 9 August, 1945, Edie Rutherford, (43 at the end of the war, a proud and sometimes sanctimonious housewife in Sheffield, married to a timber merchant and football fanatic, eager for news from her native South Africa,\u2026 delighted with the Labour government despite everything).
\n\u201cJapan gets her second atomic bomb. How many more before she wakens? I brought up the subject of the new bomb at work yesterday. Horror of its power if definitely the chief reaction \u2026All at work commented on the cost of this atomic bomb research and remembered the howl that always goes up if 2\/6d weekly is suggested for adding to old-age pensions. We live in a mad world.\u201d<\/p>\n
p. 375 Wednesday 2 April , Maggie Joy Blunt, 1947 (a lyrical and talented writer in her mid-30s living in a cottage by Burnham Beeches, near Slough, eager to leave her job as a publicity assistant in a metals company, frustrated that she can\u2019t put her public school and university training to better use) \u2013 she\u2019 through the diaries trying to write an 18th-century biography, she eventually died as a retired bookseller, no book recorded).
\n\u201cSarah, of tolerant, liberal outlook, living in a very conservative, well-to do-country district where everyone grumbles as they do here, obtained via her MP a ticket for the House one evening and sat in the Members\u2019 Gallery. Heard Eden and Shinwell and said it was very interesting, but thought they wasted too much time talking for the sake of it and on schoolboy backchat.\u201d<\/p>\n
p. 443 Tuesday, 2 September 1947 Maggie Joy Blunt
\n\u201cWe none of use really understand what it\u2019s all about, what the Government is doing for the future. They are criticised for being in too much of a hurry, trying to impose their ideals too rapidly, yet future generations may bless their little hour of power.
\nSmallness of plaice. Fishmonger explained that young shoals were being netted instead of thrown back. \u201cSoon the North Sea will be dry of fish \u2013 that\u2019s what will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
p. 455 Monday 6 October Maggie Joy Blunt
\nLast week, an article by Easterbrook in the Northern Chronicle on \u2018Britain is Being Poisoned\u2019 \u2013 our rivers polluted and creatures in it killed off by man\u2019s carelessness. Now an RU book on man-eating tigers (by Jim Corbett) in which the author says that this magnificent beast is being threatened by extermination.; Man is a slovenly, careless, greedy creature allowed to live in a miraculously wonderful world, which he won\u2019t appreciate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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