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THE complaints which are being received regarding the operation of evacuation schemes in England have at least the merit of preventing any undue complacency arising from the smoothness and efficiency with which the actual transport arrangements were carried out. The success of that operation and its fortunate freedom from attack might well have engendered undue optimism and encouraged the tendency to forget that the real test of evacuation has yet to come. The problem of dispersal, however urgent as a first step in national defence, is simple compared with the more abiding social problems which evacuation presents, not only under emergency conditions but also in the permanent reintegration of national life.
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Sociological Aspects of Evacuation. Nature 144, 527–529 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144527a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144527a0