1 SEPTEMBER 1928, Page 1

The only jarring note in the whole of the proceedings

was introduced from outside by the outrageous intrusion of some fanatical women who showed no respect for peace of any kind. We fear that there were one or two British among them. Apparently they wished to advertise their feminist views by a disorderly demand that the assembled statesmen should sit down again and draft and sign at Rambouillet another international " treaty " for the equal rights of women with men. The French authorities fortunately make short work of such exhibi- tions of folly.