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Yet it is no mean destiny to be called upon to go on for a man who laid down his life, as Christ did, to save mankind from the power of the beast. So wrote the founder of the War Widow's Guild of Australia, Jessie Mary Vasey, after the death of her husband. She was the initiator and developer of the enterprise. But the nature of her ability as a leader-her charm, intellect, will-drew other war widows of ability and determination to support her. So this is the story of a group of talented, able and determined women who, starting from the small beginnings of a craft guild which taught weaving and other handicrafts to embers so that they could augment their pitifully inadequate pensions, went on to become a powerful lobby group rivalling the R.S.L. in influence and automatically consulted by Governments on all matters concerning War Widows. War Widows of the 2nd World War needed not only financial help, their pensions were meagre, but they were in many ways a forgotten group. No one wanted to be reminded of War or Death. Hardback Ed with Dust Jacket 1986
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