COUNTESS OF WARWICK
TWENTY-FOUR YEARS A SOCIALIST.
LONDON, 28th October. The Countess of Warwick, in her first speech as a Labour candidate, said: "The young and thoughtless woman who lived at Warwick Castlo in the old days is no more.. I am too old for political ambitions in the short space I now have left; and I want to place my energies at the disposal of those who are struggling to make Britain a place fit for heroes. I have.been twenty-four years a member of the Socialist Party. I have had to stick it out with the friends of my family, but in the years gone by Socialism was not fashionable. I am merely an old Woman living in a castle. We are very poor, and the castle ought to become a national monument." There are forty-two thousand electors, of whom twelve thousand are women. j
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 103, 29 October 1923, Page 7
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