... stay in. This suggests evacuation had so far been successful. The poster does however show that evacuation was not organised as well as it could have been, it would have been better if all evacuees had found a host family before evacuation but this poster is advertising for more homes. The government expected 3 million children to be evacuated but only around 1.5 million actually were evacuated. This source evacuation was both a success and not a success as many homes at already being found but they were still in search of others. Source I is an extract from a Mass Observation Survey in May 1940. It was interviewing a father of a seven-year-old child. The Mass Observation held a huge archive of studies and surveys observing lives of the British public. The interviewee here is not going to send his child to be evacuated because he thinks his son won't ...

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