Annotated against the article's precient entries Rotha's pencil flashes "How true and purposeful" against ideas of comradeship, independence and individuality, ending with an excited note of "PLEASE". Against a sentence of 'interludes of sheer Eve' ... "Mary, I adore my interludes of sheer Eve" ... "R". Finally, she wistfully annotates "How delightful is their ordeal in parody. R." against the joys of a 'stimulating interest in each other's doings generally'.

    For Rotha this was indeed truly intoxicating. Now with the potency of women actually living together this new dawn of the new European woman would quickly become the morning of the new fascist woman. Born of a world in November 1918 that saw the male/female ratio as high as 1:42 in some areas of Britain, as whole streets, villages, towns, lose from 60% to up to even all of its males in the prime years of 18-35 (source: H.M.S.O. official statistics for the Great War 1914-1918) and women doing actual men's jobs, even going to the front like Rotha, working ambulances. For her, like so many others, there would be no going back, indeed, there should be no going back. Women's emancipation was the child born of a necessity in 1918, but fully nutured by the new fascist woman, and Rotha in Britain, led the charge.

    Her dear friend and lover, Mary Sophia Allen (1878 - 1964) to whom this Christmas gift was sent, went the same path. After organizing 'direct action' in The Woman's Suffrage Movement that resulted in three terms of imprisonment, hunger strikes and forced feeding. She helped found Britain's first Women's Police Service and was made its commandant in 1919. She later "adored saintly Adolf" (Adolf Hitler) after meeting him in 1934 and became a fervent Nationalist Socialist, and was later the chief Women's Officer of the British Union of Fascists. She died quietly in 1964.