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THE

VOTE NOV. 25, 1932

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BRAVO, AMY!

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THE VOTE

THE ORGAN OF THE WOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE

NON-PARTY

VOL. XXXIII. No. 1,205.

(Registered at the G.P.0.)

ONE PENNY

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932

OBJECTS: To use the power of the Parliamentary vote, now won for Women upon equal terms with men, to elect women to Parliament, and upon other public bodies; to establish equality of rights and opportunities between the sexes, and thereby to promote the social and industrial well-being of the community.

WOMEN AT HOME AND ABROAD

WOMEN LAWYERS

IN PARLIAMENT

NIGHT EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN

PRINCIPAL CONTENTS

THE KING'S SPEECH

A WOMAN'S NATIONALITY MUI-TSAI IN HONG KONG

GREEN, WHITE AND GOLD FAIR

ROUMANIA'S DELEGATE TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS HÉLÈNE VACARESCO

Hélène Vacaresco is one of the most interesting personalities at Geneva. A poet whose fame is world wide, this distinguished woman appeared at the First Assembly of the League of Nations in 1920 as staff secretary to the Roumanian delegation. At each Assembly, from 1921 onwards, she has re- presented her country as a delegate.

Formerly Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth of Rou- mania (Carmen Sylva), Hélène Vacaresco, who be- longs to one of the oldest and most famous Rou- manian families, visited most of the European Courts and, while still a young girl, was a guest at Balmoral during the last years of the reign of Queen Victoria.

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Hélène Vacaresco is member of the Royal Rou- manian Academy and a member of the Committee of Letters and Arts, which in- cludes John Masefield, Thomas Mann, Paul Valery, and other famous names. Two of her books of poems have been crowned by the French Academy. Her col- lection of Roumanian bal- lads, The Bard of the Dimbovitza," has been translated into many lan- guages. The English ver- sion is by Carmen Sylva and

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Alma Strettell. Hélène Vacaresco spent four years collecting these folk-songs among the peasants on her father's estates. The work entailed much pati- ence and ingenuity; she learnt spinning that she

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might over-hear spinning songs, hid herself that she might over-hear the reapers singing, and became a lis- tener in many strange places in order to capture these fine national songs which would otherwise have died out. In addition to her fame as a poet she is author of The King's Wife and other novels, "Kings and Queens I Have Known, and other prose works. She is a student of English poetry, which she greatly admires; is an excel- lent Greek and Latin scholar, and speaks six foreign lan- guages.

At the League of Nations this remarkable woman sits on the Fifth Committee, deal- ing with social questions, in- cluding white-slave traffic in women and children, matters concerning the welfare of children, and the

the opium traffic, in all of which sub- jects she is well versed. She is keen on the work of the Sixth Committee dealing with intellectual co-opera- tion, where her experience as a writer serves her well.

Other Women Delegates included in this series :-Mrs. C. A. Kluyver, Netherlands Delegation, Thirteenth Assembly, November 4th, 1932; Madame Charles Fremont, Canadian Delegation, Thirteenth Assembly, October 14th, 1932; Mrs. Edgar Dugdale, British Delegation, Thirteenth Assembly, September 30th, 1932; Dr. Ethel Osborne, Australian Delegation, Twelfth Assembly, December 4th, 1931; Mrs. H. P. Plumptree, Canadian Delegation, Twelfth Assembly, November 27th, 1931; Countess Apponyi, Hungarian Delegate, Twelfth Assembly, October 30th, 1931; Mrs. Anna Paradowska-Szelagowska, Polish Delegate, Twelfth Assembly, October 2nd, 1931; Dr. Ingeborg Aas, Norwegian Delegate, Twelfth Assembly, September 11th, 1931; The Hon. Mrs. Irene Parlby, M.L.A., Canadian Delegation, Eleventh Assembly, December 26th, 1930: Miss May Holman, M.L.A., Australian Delegation, Eleventh Assembly, November 28th, 1930; Mlle. Henni Forchhammer, Danish Delegation, Eleventh Assembly, November 14th. 1930; Dr. Roberta Jull, M.B.C.M., Australian Delegation, Tenth Assembly, October 11th. 1929; Mrs. Carlisle McDonnell, Australian Delegation, Ninth Assembly, September 7th, 1928; Mrs. Eleanor Mackinnon, Australian Delegation, Sixth Assembly, September 11th, 1925.

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