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The
Down Last Veils Of Prejudice
Cairo, Dec. 19.
Egyptian women are tearing down the last veils of prejudice and sex-discrimination which kept them from taking an active part in the public life of their country.
The silk veil which they used to wear across the lower part of their face has completely disappeared in the towns and cities, and is now rarely seen even in backward areas.
But many veils pinned up by age-old custom still exist- foremost among them the denial to women of a direct voice in the Government of the nation.
Women. for example, still The "Daughters of the Nile" have no voting rights, although are already making plans for the almost every day local news-time when women will sit
papers report Tay feminista
or equal rights,
品
new conquest Parliament. their struggle
in
Their Bral campaign will be against polygamy, which is per- The latest has been their admitted by Islamic law and nusson, for the first time, to The Egyptian Foreign Ministry
sull praelised
amoni rich Egyptians and poverty-stricken elaheen (peasants) who balance extra wife or two against the extra amount of work contributed on the farm.
|the expense of 'Skirt Invasion'
In
A recent Government dempe which won headlines
the Fayptian
P'reen. next Stat women wvall be empioverd He ran Corman, Italian, Spun-
h. Bonglist
arest French Translators
Doem Shafik and her follow- ers have waged an untiring wor on polygamy. Last May, when new elections and a
new Con- st tution were In the air. MIN
issure! Shk
appeal 10 Moslem women which she sniet "Never vote for polygam- ****
(She was referring to the Etime when women will have the vote) Give your vote to men who have one wife. who tarly iderstand the dignity of Woman
Mastey was one of the hold ont against what i called "The skirt avasimy
The
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the and regard her as a tree human Thu. Parliament will
d step to gaining an entry to ally abolish that supreme
diplomatic servier That
will be a mujor victory
Andhn (ecent
SUCCESS QE the
AVAN
no devision
Egyptian Post Office Department to en- my girls to sell stamps to the public, "But COSITIOLIOS
Tight des
dasterful not be permifted." the
partment ordered.
injustice to Woman-polygamy."
Concerted Action
ex-
A pronunent feminist and pleined: "Only by such concert- willed action can we force a large Dr-
element conservative
112 the untry
reulise that the woman's place is 180 longer the The General Labour Syndicate, barem and her only important and several Social Welfare or-
job the mothering of children. ganisations have also admitesi preferably boys. Won to responsible positions
Ston, the suffragettes hope to Kister one of their Luggest seven years of skriving for a new deal. Cairo's vunerable Al-Azhar, the Mile world's most important Univer- aily, is seriously considering the poslality of throwing open is massive wood, ron and trass dus to women,
The
Dress Smartly
Wrote . according ta reliable information, have
good chancr of getting 121 during 1050 Hitherto the Un- versity has always been a mas- valine stronghold, where women were to bledon to encroach.
The emancipation of Egyphan in common with those of the Arab countries. taedeally be seen, however. In the Thousands of girls Now ployed in Government Depart- inerts, offers.
shops and far-
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The first break with the cus- toms which imposed more Dr Jes Idle seclusion on Moslem women came during World Wor H when girls began to work in Efticus. factories And Allied military installations in or near the cities and towns of Egypt But i was not until 1948 that an organised attempt was made tu Distalna
useful place Let society for Egyptian women,
In that year. Doria Shank, handsome energetic graduate in Philosophy founded the "Daughters of the Nile" associa- ton--the Arab World's Arsı
feminist movement.
The early days were difficult Every time the suffragettes at- tempted A protest march to
Parliament. they met the long sticks which the police carried, and used, without mercy under the Monarchy, Малу female bucks still bear the scors those street demonstrations.
Nevertheless, the movement grew atendily stronger, especially after the Monarchy was abolish- નરે In 1952. More and more wernen emerged from behind
the veils of tradition. Labour Inwa which 'drastically cut down the number of foreigners who could be employed in Egypt paved the way to many well- bald Jobs for Egyptian girls.
First Campaign
But they were denied the vote. Then, in March 1954, ́a group led by the "Campaigning Cleopatra" as Doria Shank popularly cailed in Egypt, singed a hunger strike to sup- port their demands for yoling rights.
For eight days, they lay in bed at their homes, refusing to || touch food or water. The
Government capitulated. The Prime Minister, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, promised that the new Constitution which will be drafted carly in 1950 will give "women" equal rights
with men'
In all fields of:public; lite, in- cluding Parliament
to
They will be able, too, stand: for election, as well, og
Those days are over
even
though sonte people in this part f the world pretend to think otherwise."-Chinn Moil Special.
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Surrounded by friends and supporters. Dr Alberto Galnia Paz, centre, proprictor of the newspaper La Prensa, Is ple- tured on his recent return to the Argentine capital follow- ing four and one-half years of went Into exile after the Peron regime expro- priated La Prensa and hunded it over Li the Confederation of Workers. Now the government intends stying the paper back to Dr Paz.- Express Photo,
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MAYOR KILLED
IN AMBUSCADE
Manila, Dec. 20. Cavite Province. the hotbed of outlawry In southern Luzon, was the scene of another am- busende yesterday morning re- sulling in the death of the Mayor of Magallanes lown, Mr Bene- venuto Espinell and the wound- ing of five of his companions.
Minister
For
er Pleads Railway
OPEN UP NORTHLAND
Ottawa, Dec. 19.
The most striking new trend in Canadian post-war thinking is an intense preoccupation, at the top level, with Northern developments. At first this was primarily concerned with military matters but now it is económic as well.
A remarkable Instance of this 1,000 tons a day, provided that occurred at the end of Noven-the railway is built. They would bor when the Royal Commission ineroage this to 2,000 tons with- on Canada's Economic Prospects in a year or two, with 10,000 met at Edmonton, Alberts, tons a day as the ultimate pro-
duction goal,
ts
Mr R. Gordon Robertson, who
both dopuly Minister of Since 2,000 tons of ore would Northern Affairs and National provide 480 tons of concentrate Resources and Commissioner for for shipment daily, Mr Robert the Northwest Territories, pro- son estimates that about 45 per sented carofully documented cent of the railway's traight re but none the to Impassioned quirements would be satised briet urging the construction of provided that the Government a railway from the present "end carries the cost of constructing of steel" at Grimshaw, Alberta, it. the Great Slave Lake in the Northern Territories, at a cost of between 50,000,000 dollars and 55,000,000 dollars (about £17,000,000 to £19,000,000),
Alsó
Roads
Mr Robertson insisted through- out that he was speaking in his capacity of Commissioner of the Territories and not
not as deputy Minister of National Resources. He based his plea primarily on the national economic advantage to Canada, and only secondarily upon considerations of national defence, backing up the Distant Early Warning and Mid-Canada rader lines.
In Excess
The Northern Alberta Rall- WELTEK already operating from Edmonton to the Pooco River district, are jointly owned by the Corradian Canadian Pacific Railways.
National and
Beenuse the cost of extending the line 400 miles North would be excessive in relation to the Immediate return
Robertson
in
freight
oferod the
charges, the proposal is for the Federal Government to con- struct the line from Grimshaw to Pine Point and tum it over to Northern Alberts Rallways for operation, Erce of interest charges, But, in addition to the rail-
Mr way Mr Robertson called for
figure of 28,000,000 dollars an construction of roads Into pro-
estimate of tho a conservative raising
resource
annual development probable
addition to areas of the North, plus a polley
Canada's gross national product, of supplying the
if the newly con- structed defence stations in the Territories by commercial air servlees and the "establishment of a network of scheduled com- mercial airlines in the Arctic,"
the
to
A
Ad
Do mine is brought
for cost to the Govern ment, $5,000,000 dollars amort- ired at 3 per cent over 50 yours would amount to 2,345,000 dollars
a year, Estimated fax receipts by the Federal Govern- ment, however, would be greatly in excess of that Agure.
The key project, however, is the proposal construct 400 miles of railway from the ous Peace River forming
Revenues of about 3,500,000 of Northern Alberta to dollars per annum from Income Pine Point, on Great Slave Lake, tax and royalties are anticipated, where
world's greatest after the Party, was known lend-zinc
first three years, ore busty during which on his way home from a wed-awaits tapping.
the new mino ding in a jeep when he and his Pino Point Mines Ltd, coh-
would be tax exempt. companions were ambushed by trolled by Consolidated idining concerned
However, Mr Robertson was unidentified men. France
with Northern Smelting, are prepared to developments far beyond tho start production at the rate of servicing of one mine, when he
Espineli, who belonged to the opposition Liberal
Presse.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
AND MANDRAKE'S ARM SEEMS TO STRETCH AND S-T-R-E-T-C-H TO GRAB HIM?
By Mik
10-18 hak
By Ernie Bushmiller
TOO
CORNY
I HAVE A
ONE
A SPACE SHIP
IN A BOTTLE
TWO MEN FIND A DIAMOND ANTI IN SOUTH AFRICA ON, THE MY TO STAKE THEIR CLAIM, ƠIH
ATTACKS THE OTH
MODERN?.
B
MAND LEAVES HIM FOR DEADĂ.. [YEARS LATER THE GEMELY ONE
· A DIAMOND TYCOON IN AMETI
4 WHILE NE VICTOR
CANID BUSHMILL, DELA OCT.10
By Frank Robbins,
PARECOVERS AND WORKS YEARS. SÄDELG, POM HIS ULTIMATE-GOALWATO
RYUKI-NIS (DX-PARTNER WITH THE› KIWLEDGE THAT HID ILL-GOTTUN - S
CANNOT SAVE HIS MISERABLE
And
EVEN
MAGICIANS
cant Carlsberg
TRY
If we were
any fresher
wed still be
on the vine!
Libby's
FROZEN STRAWBERRIES
TODAY
I'M OFF TO A PARTY AND I'M TAKING ROWRTRESS CHOCOLATES AS A
ESTER
PRESENT/
this situation
Can Miguel
the
construction of the on to Great Slave Lake.
In unusually rousing language for a civil servant, he declared: "A railway to Great Slave Lako will not be just another raik way. It is not a railway to a lake, or to open a mine or to Dervo a community. It will be one of the great, devolopment railroads of the country,
Different
"It will not bring population to the Northwest Territories to the same extent that Western railroads brought it to the Frairies, but it will bring in the yours ahead a comparable in- eroase in the wealth of Canada,
unde
rallway is different from most of the branch lines
constructed In recent which were
designed to serve one mine or group of mines, *Its purpose is to open up
whole now region The fact that there happest value at
potential mine of
to be
A
the northern terminus is a piece
of great good fortune, for it will enable this railroad to be built
without
the long wait for reason- able returns which has so often been the lot of a pioneer rail- road" (such as the Hudson Bay ruttway).
While Mr Robertson's znal approach was economic, he did not neglect-consderations of defence which are likely to bo most cogent when Parliament is asked to pass an opinion upon the project, which now seems inevitable since. It has such powerful backing.
"It has, in recent years," he declared, become a common- place that our Aretic frontier is of vital importance in nationar and continental defence. There is only one route to the central Arctic coast of North America which is not along the exposed sea lives that
along the
That
route is one tho Mackenzio River the railway to. Great Slave Lako would....
..provide
de an all-year
waterway ONS AAEupted:
τίνος
Finally,
the
according to Mr Robertson: "In the 1870's Canada
was at the point wheo's national doctalon had to be taken which determinedă whether or not the West would be opened up and developed.
Enormous Costs
the risks were sing this decisión tig