Nora’s winning medal Photo: courtesy of Stamford Local History Society
Writing wrongs: An essay from 1934 by Nora Blake.
‘I wish one country would have the courage to tell the world “We will disarm”’
War! The very word makes me shiver. Although the great war ended before I was born, I know enough about it to realise that all countries concerned are still suffering from its results. We are all paying the penalty. No country can spend four years in destruction, blowing millions of pounds in the air in the form of shells, without suffering from chaos. The whole of the industrialised world was disorganised, and as a consequence many soldiers who survived from the war without serious consequences came back only to find it impossible to secure employment. Also, thousands of families mourn the loss of loved ones, and thousands more have the care of those who were disabled, the blind, the crippled, the insane. Truly war levies a terrible toll.
