Miss Eleanor Rathbone, president of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, a member of the Liverpool City Couuncil, and a Justice of the Peace, has inherited the mantle of Mrs. Fawcett, the retired and honoured leader of constitutional women suffragista for half a century. She holds that now that women have £he Tote that is not all they are after. "The National. Union never asked for the vote merely as an end in itself," sh« says. "We looked upon it as the hallmark of citizenship, but also as an instrument for removing grievances, especially those which weigh upon women who aro too •oppressed by poverty or circumstances to fight for themselves." At the diamond wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Jarnca Wood, of Aberdeen, a featara of the celebrations was -the presence of Mr. and Mrs.' George Coimaok, who/acted ua thoir beato-in&n and hiitJcaOMMt ..sixty;
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1922, Page 16
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