WOMEN POLITICIANS SIR,—One point at least was common to the
broadcasts of Miss Ellen Wilkinson and Lady Violet Bonham-Carter—their insistence on the provision of good homes. Gcod homes, with labour-saving devices, are very desirable, of course, but to hear these speeches one would imagine that only women live in homes, and that women have interest in homes alone. I want to put forward the view that men as well as women live in homes, and that women as well as men are affected by the bigger issues of a properly conducted foreign policy, for instance, without which our homes, bowever labour-saving, are liable to be blown sky-high, taps, running.water and all. • How encouraging it would be to hear a woman politician give a speech which treated men and women as human beings living in a difficult world, instead of as two different and competing species ; and to have the appeal made to something a little better than a desire.for more comfortl—Yours
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