Lord Cromer was the chief spedker at the annual Council
meeting of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League on Tuesday afternoon, Lady Jersey presiding :—" He doubted whether the extreme gravity of the question now ender dis- cussion was always fully realised. The issue at stake was that the supreme government of the British Empire, which had heretofore been in the hands of one sex, should be ultimately transferred to the two sexes, in which the female was numerically greatly superior to the male. Why should the vast fabric of the British Empire be made- the dumping- ground for a crude experiment which had never yet been tried by any other of the great nations of the world P He hoped that he might be allowed as a Unionist to bear testimony to the deep debt of gratitude which all who were opposed to Mr. Shackleton's Bill owed to the Prime Minister. Mr.. Asquith had shown moral courage."
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