THE QUALITY OF MERCY
WOMAN COUNCILLOR’S INFLUENCE “Women in the mass have often achieved a great deal—so sometimes has one woman alone,” said Georgia Henschel, speaking in the 8.8. C. series “In Britain Today.” “Last week, in a debate, men on the Town Council of Newquay, in Cornwall, wished to refuse reemployment to one of their employees who had been sent to prison. A woman member, however, argued that the law had taken its course, and he should not be punished further, and to win her fellow councillors, she took, literally, a leaf out of Shapespeare, and quoted to them Portia’s famous lines on mercy: ‘But mercy is above this sceptred sway: it is enthroned in the heart of kings; it is an attribute of God TTimsc’f . The man is getting his job back.”
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14927, 15 March 1949, Page 5
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