WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
INTERVIEW WITH THE COLONIAL SECRETARY. NO HOPE OF MAKING IT AN ISSUE. ITm Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 12. The Colonial Secretary (Ear! Crewe), in reply to a deputation of fourteen members of the Forward Suffrage Union within the Women's Liberal Federation, said that it would bo impossible to make the women's veto a plank in the coming General Election. Dwelling on the sharp differences between 1 ito Government, and Parliament on this question, he remarked that if it were now brought forward in the House of Cornirons the suffrage would lie largely beaten. There would have to he changes' in those now holding office if the party were to make the question a definite ir-sue at the election, "'kick would mean that the party wouU! suffer a distinct loss of strength.
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Evening Star, Issue 14214, 13 November 1909, Page 5
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133WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Evening Star, Issue 14214, 13 November 1909, Page 5
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