SEX EQUALITY
EMPIRE LEAGUE CONFERENCE. (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, July 9. Viscount Cecil of Caxton Hall opened the first conference of the British Commonwealth League, formed to secure equality , of men and women of the British Commonwealth. A.ll the Dominions are represented. Mrs Cbr-bett-Ashley preside'^. Viscount Cecil spoke on imperial policy, with special' reference to the political power of the women citizen. He contended . that the League of Nations had prOvfefd l " a uniting' influence in the Empire. Every one had • been impressed' with the friendliness and smoothness with which the arrangements had forked so far as the British Empire was concerned. Foreign states Vere justified in regarding the Empire as one. The whole of the! representatives of South Africa. India and New Zealaxid participated in the -morning's discussion on political equality, which MJiss Ellen "Wilkinson, La-bo.ur M.P., introduced. A New Zealqnder, Miss- Kane, gave ft: somewhat j gloomy account of Women's franchise' in New Zealand, ailluding to the : apathy of the-women and the lack of co-operation;—Reuter.
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