WOMEN IN CONCLAVE.
PROCEEDINGS CONCLUDED. AUSTRALIANS FELICITATED. (Australian and N.Z. Press Assn.) PARIS, June 7. The congress of the International Women's Alliance for Equal Citizenship was concluded yesterday. At th<s close of the proceedings Mrs Corbelt Ashby, president, in an interview, said it had meant a great deal to the congress to have Australian delegates there. Their presence had brought home to the delegates from all countries the fact that public life had been developed over the enormous continent, ef Australia by equal cooperation between men and women. Their presence had also helped enormously to convert public opinion in France at. a critical moment in the development of the women's suffrage movement. France remembered the magnificent help which was rendered by Australian soldiers in the war. She now felt that the same spirit had inspired Australian women to conic to help French wi/men in their fight for the vote.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16817, 8 June 1926, Page 6
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