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County Herald and Taunton Courier. Saturday 28 Oct 1939
Page 8
Column 7
CURRY RIVEL.
A.R.P. MEETING. - A well-attended meeting was held on Thursday at the Sewers Hall, when Colonel BONHAM-CARTER (county warden) gave an address on A.R.P. Work. Sir Horace DAWKINS (head warden for Curry Rivel) presided. The lecturer invited questions, an several were asked and answered.
WAR-TIME SONGS
Mrs. Theodora PENNY, Thorney, Curry Rivel, in a letter to The Times, says:-
Recently a camp concert from an R.A.F. Centre was broadcast. The audience, a body of fine young men who are risking their lives for us and a great ideal, had two terrible songs sung at them. Both these songs had reference to the Siegfried Line an entirely lacked wit, humour, or inspiration of any kind. They appear to have been written by those with the mentality of apes.
I think it is an insult to the brave men to expect them to listen to such idle and tasteless boastings. It was a relief when some of the songs of the last war were sung in chorus. They may be old and sentimental, but they strike a right note. Cannot someone write a new song with words worthy of the men who go out to fight to-day?