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Muna Lee, a Mississlpian. wife of Lola Munoz Marin, Porto Rican writer and economist. She is a poet, and the author of “Sea Change,” «Kiitor and translator of the SpanishAmerican Anthology number of “Poetry;” translator of Gen. Rafael de Nogales’ “Four Years' Beneath the Crescent;” frequent contributor to Latin American, Spanish and North American magazines. Director of the Bureau of International Relations ot the University of Porto Rico. Has received leave from her University to help in the work of the In ter-American Commission of Women, created by the Sixth Pan-American Conference. Muna Lee as she is known in the United States —was one of the group of the National Woman's Party. U.S.A., who went to Havana to ask the Sixth Pan-American Conference for a treaty granting equal rights. She spoke before the plenary session of the Conference at the hearing on Equal Rights.
Miss Elsie Ross Shields, Executive Secretary to the Inter- American Commission of Women, Brazilian by birth; ha* spent much time in Europe and Spanish America; has just arrived from Cuba to assume her dutit*.
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White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 403, 18 February 1929, Page 12
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