WOMEN’S PATH TO THE POLLS
THE PATH OF PEACE POPE BROADCASTS TO FRANCE ((Rec. 12.50 p.m.) LONDON. Oet. 21. As women are going to the polls for the first time in France, the Pope, in a special broadcast over the Vatican radio, said: “ Women! Your hour has struck. Public life needs you. It is your duty to enter public life and contribute all your strength to its organisation.” He added that an immense task awaited women in public life, in which they would be concerned with putting forward proposals relating to domestic life. It was the function of politics to consolidate to give every family in every walk of life the economic, juridical, and ethical conditions necessary for their existence and development in, a peaceful community. “ Women cannot admit that politics should mean the dominance of one class over another, or territorial or economic expansion resulting from the oppression of others. They know that such a policy would greatly harm the family, who would have to foot the bill, paying a heavy price in blood and property. No truly wise woman would countenance a policy of class'struggle, or war. The path of women to the polls is the path of peace.”
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Evening Star, Issue 25620, 22 October 1945, Page 5
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