Edition Bobbett1. Texts by Elizabeth F. Bobbett: 1.1.3. Correspondence, Letters to newspapers
1940 Elizabeth Bobbett: Letter to the Evening Herald, 02.08.1940
Sir. The item in our national defence that will count most is our food supply. This falls to the lot of the farmers of the country, and they have responded a hundred per cent to the call for increased tillage and production, and, indeed, without any guarantee of prices that will meet the cost of production. As a farmer, I resent the statement made by Mr. William Davin, TD, at a recruiting meeting in Clara, as reported in the press – viz., “The response from rural areas was not all that it should be. Farmers and farmers’ sons were in the forefront of every fight for the nation’s welfare, and it was not right that they should hang back now.”
The farmer loves his native land more than any other citizen, and he will not be found wanting: but at the moment, when they are endeavouring to secure the nation’s food supply, instead of receiving more assistance, they are being harassed by visits from sheriff’s officers.