... in real danger and faced with • food shortage. the people were called upon to grow more food, dig every inch of ground. dig for dear life, and dig for victory. Whitehall called with no uncertain voice, and the people rose stuckrally. To this day the yand ...

... there is incentive lacking, as compared with the war years when, despite longer hours of work .nearly everybody was “digging for victory In some ways, from the allotment-holder’s point of view, the present situation is welcome inasmuch as there is justification ...

... in fact many of them magnificently did during the war years—in their allotments and gardens. Since those days when digging for victory waa as great a patriotic effort as Home Guarding and Civil Defence, the townsman has been rather backsliding. He has ...