COUNTESS WARWICK
MEMBER OF SOCIALISTIC PARTY. FIRST SPEECH AS LABOUR , CANDIDATE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received October 29, 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 28. The Countess of Warwick, in her finst speech as a Labour candidate, ©aid: “Tho young, thoughtless woman who lived at Warwick Castle in the old days is no more. I am too old for political ambitions in the short space I now have left. 1 want to place my energies at tjlie disposal of those struggling to make Britain a place fit for heroes. I have been twenty-four years a member of the Socialist d?arty. I have liud to stick it out with the friends of my family, but in the yeans 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/ 5
There are 42,000 electors* of whom 12,000 are women.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11662, 29 October 1923, Page 8
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