VOTES FOR WOMEN.
PROSPECT OF A SUBSTANTIAL EXTENSION. SIR EDWARD GREY’S IDEAS. , London, November 21. Sir E. Grey, in a letter to Lord Lytton, states there is a prospect or a real and substantial extension of the suffrage to women. It was unreasonable to expect the adoption of measures giving women an absolute majority on the Parliamentary register, but he was in favour of the extension on the basis of a Conciliation Bill, also to married women. The Government’s Rill is so drawn as to facilitate such an amendment, which, if it secures the suffragists' acceptance, will be more quickly feasible than a. separate measure. A member on the front Ministerial bench might move an amendment if the supporters of the movement considered it desirable, but this was useless without union amongst tiie supporters of the women’s suffrage in the House of Commons.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 84, 22 November 1911, Page 8
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