"In consequence of the passing of the C Service Disqualification (Removal) Act, 1919, the Civil Service Commissioners have issued! regulations reserving to men all posts in the Diplomatic Service and the Consular Service. All posts in the Commercial Diplomatic Service and the Trade Commissioner Service are also reserved to men, except that of chief clerk in the respective offices of Trade Commissioners.
"The regulations also reserve to men all posts in the following services oversea, other than posts for which women may be specially recruited:—Government services of the Colonies and Protectorates to which appointments are made in the United Kingdom, and Civil Services of His Majesty in India."
No other interpretation is poss-' ible than that Diplomacy in Great Britain wishes to place on record that it requires no women in_ its ranks. What is the reason? Is it out of jealousy for the position of men, or conviction of the incompatibility between women and diplomacy? If the former is the
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