Women's National Anti-Suffrage League organizing meeting

Reports organizing meeting of national anti-suffrage league, chaired by Lady Jersey; Manifesto and constitution printed as adopted; list of supporters including Lords, Ladies and MPs; Mary Ward spoke of urgent developments that required immediate counteraction: Women's Parliamentary Enfranchisement Bill had passed House with large majority; Fawcett procession and intolerable noise of Women's Social and Political Union

On verso: London Times editorial urges women who don't want the vote to make their opinions know to government by organization and agitation; believes that women can contribute at municipal level, but that only men should govern and defend the nation

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01/01/1908

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