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...Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance opened at Rome. It is the largest that has ever been held, over 1,000 delegates " from all lands " having assembled. Signor Mussolini, opposed to feminism and woman suffrage in Italy, but appreciating advertising, provided Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt (President) with a guard of honor of Fascisti...
...opening session Mrs. Catt turned to Benito Mussolini, who occupied a seat on the platform. " Signor Mussolini, you are the most talked-of man in all the world today. . . . Men tell us that you stand for order, for unity, for patriotism, for a better and higher civilization. These are our ideals, too. . . . We have asked the civilized governments of the world to endorse our program. We ask this Government...
Twenty years ago Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt organized the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. On May 12 that organization opens its biennial convention in Rome, and Mrs. Catt has announced that she will finally retire from the Presidency which she has held since 1904. As a lecturer and woman suffrage leader she is known throughout the country and also as a most prominent advocate of the Nineteenth Amendment. During recent months she has been touring South America, arousing the proponents of suffrage in those countries. Her last official act as President of the International Alliance will be to make a report...
...Catt's work in South America may have some bearing on the selection of her successor. Inasmuch as an Anglo-Saxon has been President of the organization since its inception, it is thought advisable to elect a "Latin " woman as the next President. International politics, however, will play its part. If a French or Italian woman were elected there is fear that the German women might be alienated. Mrs. Maud Wood Park, President of the National League of Women Voters and delegate to the Convention from the United States, predicted that the next President of the Alliance would...
Carrie Chapman Catt ...............................politics...