WILL IT BE A MAN’S WORLD?

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1441, 6 December 1917, Page 13 (Supplement)

WILL IT BE A MAN’S WORLD?

Lord Rosebery in discoursing of probable conditions in Great Britain after the war, speaks of the Army thus: “Our millions of men will return with a new spirit and new view of the world.- They will be supermen, and they must inevitably control the future of this country. They will bring back self-respect and respect for others. Character is another inestimable asset that they will bring us.”

The suffragettes and the feminists generally have been dream ng fondly of a post-bellum England which shall be under their control, but it is probable Lord Rosebery has the clearer vision; at least he has the authority of history. Ordinarily the nation that comes out of a desperate war with even a moderate degree of success is essentially masculine in its ideas for a good while afterward. Great Britain is likely to be distinctly a man’s country when it gets through its fight, a country that will be run with small patience for feministic fads. And what will be true in Great Britain will be true in other European countries, only the change from former conditions will be less marked.