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BRITISH WOMEN SHINE. Facts About Some Pioneers.
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Women of diversified interests who have became lenders in Britain's Parliament are Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamil- ton tupper left), novelist and biographer; Dr. Marton Phillips Capper right), scientist and official of the Labour Party: Dr. Ethel Bentham (lower left), doctor and former Justice of the Peace; and Miss Jenny Lee lower right), school teacher and the first woman ander 25 to be elected
to the House of Commons.
Although In Great Britain the title is, therefore, the Right Hon- women voters far outnumber the arable Margaret Rondfield, al- men and, in spite of that, only though to her old associates in have 14 members in a House of the Labour party she is just plais Comnions composed of 616 M. P.'s. "Maggie." Starting out in life as every woman stands gut because a shop girl. Miss Rondfield hegame she is n "first" In fact, the pre chief
woman
officer of the Rent House of Commons might be National Union of General and called the Parlinowat of the Municipal Workers and has been one of the chief women speakers and organizers
of the Labour
women rata."
There is Miss Margaret Rond field, for instaner. She is the first woning in Great Britain ever to have held full Cabinet rank. in the Minister of Labour and her the
party. She has another "first" to her credit, too, for she is the first She woman who was over President of Tradex Linton Congress
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General Counell, having nitrined) Miss Ethel Winkinson, another this honour way back in 1923. Labour member, has three firsts. : Then there is Miss Susan Law-She is the first in tiny stature, he- j rence, who has the dialinetlon of ing only about five fret. She Is being the first British woman to the first red-headed woman elect- have been chairman of a nationaled to Parliament. Also she is the
The political
Labour Arst woman now paper writer in party. Party thus honoured her. She is Parliament. Her Bo-Peeps t at present Parliamentary Secre- Parlament" are remarkable for tary to the Ministry of Health, and the wit and raillery with which the first woman to hold that place. she touches off her fellow mem- For long years she represented a Ders, regardless of
which party division of London in the London they belong to. County Council and there won an-
Lady Cynthia Mosley is a whole other first, being the first woman bunch of firsts. She is the first deputy chairman of that body woman to sit in Parliament at the Miss Lawrence is one of the first same time that her husband was recruits to the Labour Party from also a member of the Commons. the wealthy intelligentsia and has She is the first woman millionaire rendered valiant services to the to be elected. She is the first La- party of the workers.
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GERMANY FACES PROBLEMS. NOTED ARMY LEADER RESIGNS.
Berlin, Oct. 20. Because he was too good and true a republican to lead the re- of the German publican army republic, General Wilhelm Heye has resigned in post, effective November 30 next and is to be suc ceeded by General Baron von Ham- merstein.
Thereby hangs a tale that may have fateful results for Germany and for the peace of Europe.
dictatorship
In a troubled country like Ger- many where true republicans are always nervous about an attempt hour mother M. P. She is the first by the Communists to overturn the Bolo From School to Parliament. society beauty ehosen to Partin-government and institute a Pretty Miss Jenny Lee, who re-ment. Lady Cynthia made a bril presents a Scottish district, has liant marriage, her husband being two firsts. She is the Arat woman Sir Oswald Mosley. Baronet, one under 25 elected to Parliament, of the handsomest and most and she is the first school teacher talented men in Parliament. He thus honoured. Her father was a first sat as a Tory M. P. He left working miner, who put his hat party and swung over to the bright girl through the university. Labour party at the same time And she us sooner landed in Paris young wife did so, although her liament than she took her seat father was a pillar of the Tory among the Left-Siders, who think Party and one Ramsay MacDonald is going too slowly towards. "Socialism in our
time."
Donald.
of the proudest aristocrats in England. Ever since, she has been holding the only great social salon the the Party knows.
Dr. Marion Phillips, also n Labour member, has also three blems. firsts. She is the first Australian-
A Distinctive "First." born woman to enter the House of
Lady "Nancy Astor hus one Commons, the first woman Doctor first that will always make her re- of Science to do so, and the first membered. She is the first woman chief woman officer of the Labour who ever sat in Parliament, being party to do so. She is, so to speak, chosen for Plymouth to succeed one of the wheel-horses of her her husband when Lord Astor suc party, having been in the fore ceeded to the title and had to front of the fighting for the past take his sent in the House of fifteen years and editing some of Lords. She is Tory M. P., but its most forceful weekly and breaks away front her party when monthly publications.
it goes wet, she being" dry, and also on great social questions.
or ♫ putsch by National Socialists in an attempt to But up either an imitation Fas cist dictatorship or a new-mon- archial regime, much depends upon the Reichswehr, the Ittle professional army of 100,000 men Germany is allowed to have under the Treaty of Versailles. Some years ago when Adolf Hitler, lender of the present "Nazis,' Colonel Kapp and General Luden. dorf attempted a putsch, it was defeated by three forces can
were united: First The Beichswehr.
Second-The organized police
Here are the old and new leaders of Germany's small but enormously important army. General Wilhem Heye, left, has been succeeded by General Bar on von
Hammerstein, right.
Red Alliance Rumoured.
Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton Is
to the Labour Mtes Eleanor another recruit
Rathbone has a
forces of the reich.
But there is another sensational; Schleicher is a close friend of Col. Party from the well-to-do classes, unique first. She Is the first
Third-The republican working story going the rounds in Ger- von Hindenburg, who is a son of She has three firsts--Brat woman woman ever elected to Parliament
masses which used the weapon off nuiny. It is alleged that shortly the German President and mill- novelist ever elected to Parlin to represent. English universities the strike to prevent transport of before the national elections of tary aide-de-cump to his father. ment, first blographer, and first and she is the first woman ever putsch troops.
September 14 Inat, Chancellor Furthermore, Schleicher and the woman representative of Great elected as an independent without,
Republic is Threatened. Bruening sent for General Heye. younger Hindenburg were former- Britain at the sessions of the any party ties whatsoever. She is The danger of violence in Ger- Ile is supposed to have told him ly officers in the same Guards League of Nations. One of Mrs. also a member of the Liverpool many is greater to-day than at any that the outlook was that the next regiment. Thus through potent in- Hamilton's most recent books is a Council, and president of the time since the republic was estab- Reichstag would not produce a fluences were the slids put under blography of her chief, Mr. Mar National Union for Equal Citizen- lished. The "Nazis," emboldened body with which he could govern Heye.
ship. She
published by having received over aix mil- and that he would, therefore, pro- has numerons works o Ancial pro-
lion votes in the recent elections bably have to carry on a sort of But there is another thing that and having 107 members in the legal dictatorship under Article 48 is worrying good Germans who national Reichstag, are talking of the Constitution by which Pre- want to see the country at pence londly about what they are going sident Hindenburg would once internally and externally. It is to do. The Communists, who have more dissolve the Reichstag and the charge openly made that Ham- become the third party in point order Bruening to earry on the merstein has been flirting with the of strength in the Reich and who Government by decree.
Red army of the Russian Sovieta. also made immense increases in
Heye was told to hold himself Germanic, the organ of the great menbership in the Reichstag, talk and the Reichswehir ready for Catholic Centre
anid that party, just as boldly on the Nazis,
such a serious eventuality. Heye Hammerstein's Both
да are out to destroy the Republic. Is supposed to have replied that
appointment head
of the Reichswehr would It therefore, a rather om
he could and would only do what complete the group of politieni inous sign that right at this junc- is constitutional, therefore repub generals at the War Office and Lure General Heye in getting ready lean, To which Bruening is sup- that these men to relinquish his post,
had far-reaching "It was posed to have uttered the menac was the idea of a close military al foreign aims. Chief among theso been known for a long time that ing words: he was a marked man.
When
he
Then without you
liance with Soviet Russia by which tonk hold of the Reichswehr many. Forced out by Group.
uny
they hoped to win back some of pro- One day not long ago Heye the territory lost during and after woman member of the Ecclesiast)- She is the first Duchess ever'ulect-
claimed their hostility to the cal Committee of the House of ed to Parliament and she is the public. Heye shut their mouths, he was resigning," with the hint It
charged that Hammerstein, Commons. She is one of the most firit Tory woman who was ever
The Nazis started to undermine that General Hammerstein was to As head of the Troop Office in the extensive travellers in the-flouse, parliamentary secretary to a mem-the reliability of the army by succeed him. This was at first de Ministry of Defence, hail a depart
forming within the junior nied by the Government, but mont for foreign armies. Part of having gone all over Europe, India ber, of the cabinet.
ranks. Heye caught some of them shortly afterwards General Heve this was, of course, legitimate. It and America. During the war she
at it and preferred charges which enigmatically announced that, he was the duty of the ministry to was a pominent worker in the
are shortly to be hoard.
Was indeed resigning "for purely study foreign armies, so as to Y. W C. A. canteens and hos
Then he made his famous speech personal reasons," Everybody in pace with military development pitals,
Last but not least comes little at the Dresden school for infantry Germany knows what that means, and Improvements. But it charg Dr. Ethel Bonthunt, also Mias Megan Lloyd-George, daugh officers, Alming directly at the General Groonor is 3inister of ed that under Hammerstein mero member of the Labour party, is the ter of the famous David of that Nazis, he said in a tons of warn- Defence in the German Cabinet, than this was done,
His officers first woman doctor and the first name. She is the first daughter
Under him, in charge of personnel not only expressed prafes of woman Quakor elected to the over to sit in the House at the "Gentlemen, the doors stand and various other matters, are Red army, but
for the House of Commons. She formerly "me time as her father.
Also open,"
Generala Hammerstein and Kurt Soviets Em
factopathy
in world poli ent as
member of the Kensington she is the first woman momber
Talk of Dictatorship. von Schleicher They were not ties. Other papers charged that That had two meanings. Borough Council, was one of the Whose father was a Primo Minis-
It under Heye. They equalled him first women Justices of the Pence ter of Great Britain. In the pro- through which he would bounce and were Independent of him. To this it was weakly replied that meant that the doors stood open in their accons to General Groaner Mechswehr officers wore training with Russian army departments. ever appointed in this country and sont Parliament, she has the fur officers untrue to the republic. It Also they worked against him, these officers had resigned from Is at present a member of the ther lonely distinction of bolog also meant that the prison doors They form part of a military junta the German army and had gone Metropolitan Asylums Board. the only woman Liberal M. P. stood open for thom.
In the Ministry of Defence,Van to Russia on their own.
A Travelling M. P...
Miss E. Picton-Turbervill, also
The Duelions of Atholl, who ha
of the Labour party, is the frstalno a Tory M. P., has two frats, of the younger officers openly woke up to find in the papers that the war.
The Countess of Iveagh is the Brat Countess ever elected to. Par- Hamont.
ing:
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