The new home of the American Women's Club (which has just moved from Hertford-street) was opened on June 2% at 46 Grosvenor-street, formerly Mr. Edgar Speyer's house, by Mr. Post Wheeler, American Charge d'Affaires, Lord Robert Cecil, and Lady Astor.
Mr. Post Wheeler's opening was so official and so brief that it was over before people had settled down to hearing a speech, Lady Astor expressed her opinion of what an American women's club should be. Unless ft was a fine club American women would not come to it. She hoped it would become a centre of political agitation, where every American woman in London could come and say what she thought of England, of the League of Nations, of prohibition and the Democratic Party, and all the things they dared not talk about when watched by men.
Lord Robert Cecil said he could not accept Lady Astor's view of clubs. He could not imagine a more awful thing than a duo that discussed prohibition and the League of Nations: in England a club was a home of peace, where people rested from discussion.
Mrs. Curtis Brown, president of the club, said they had moved from a small house to a large one and they hoped to do many interesting, joyous, and generous things in their new home.
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