ARREST OF WOMEN
FEMINISTS UP IN ARMS • Australian Press Association. WASHINGTON, 28th August. Feminist leaders in North and South America are up in arms over tho arrest of women at the Presidential Palace at Paris during tho signing of the Treaty. Miss Alice Paul, loader of tho National Women's Party of the United States, says: "Despite the hostile attitude of diplomats in Paris, it will not be long before tlioro will be an international agreement to raise tho status of women throughout tho world. There is no subject on which international action is more urgently needed." Scnorita Gonzalez, a Panama representative on. the Inter-American Commission of Women, states: "Tho arrests are unequivocal proofs that the Old World is behind the New in its attitude toward women and their rights. We Latin-American women aro proud to proclaim tho splendid responso of Latin-America to the Treaty for equal rights."
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 44, 30 August 1928, Page 13
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147ARREST OF WOMEN Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 44, 30 August 1928, Page 13
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