WOMEN’S PARLIAMENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 110, 12 May 1938, Page 2

WOMEN’S PARLIAMENT

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL MEETINGS AT EDINBURGH DELEGATES OF 36 NATIONS LONDON. April 9. ' Just 380 years ago the Scottish re-: I former, John Knox, issued a tract j under the title of ‘’The First Blast of the Trumpet. Against the Monstrous ; I Regiment of Women,” in which he I denounced political government by j women. Those were the dayA when iMary Tudor, Catherine de Medici, • and Mary of Guise dominated Euroipean policies, states a correspondent. Next July the world’s “statesi women” will give their reply to this i attack at a series of morning coffee • parties round the statute of John Knox in the courtyard of Edinburgh’s Assembly Hall. ’ At these open-air parties women ‘ representing 36 nations will express i their views on the world problems be- • ing discussed at their council meet- ‘ isgs in the Assembly Hall from July 111 to 22. The Duchess of Kent is | making a special journey to Edin- ; burgh to entertain the delegates of i the International Council of Women !on July 18. She is acting as hostess I and receiving the guests at the gar- ' den party at Holyroodhouse, being '• given in honour of the foreign visitors by the Scottish Office, but will ' probably spend only the day in Scot- : land. This is the first time since 1899 that th' International Council has met in Great Britain. Lady Aberdeen is among those who can recall the im- - 1 mense interest evoked by London's I first world parliament of women.