The Archive · 1935

A London Letter

WOMEN'S CONFERENCE AT ISTANBUL: A CAMPAIGN AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT By Owe Dex

London, Apr. 2 aeroplane circled overhead with Stop In a recent letter, referring to the the Death Sentence in huge letters bygone struggles of the suffragettes, its wings, and several women T alluded to even Turkish women knelt and proved ip the road. having come out of the harem and Mrs. Van der Elst asserted vehembeing given the vote. Now, about ently that the condemned man was the time you get this letter, the 12th not responsible for his actions, (It 'Congress of the International Alliance must be said that his case went of women will be meeting in Con appeal, "and certainly the evidence stantinople, or, "as now renamed, that he was perfectly sane appeared Istanbul. And,' irony of ironies, it very strong. But she is against capital will meet in Yildiz Kiosk, the lovely Punishment in any event. So. are palace in which the former Sultsn many other people. It is an old con-Abdul "the condemned" maintained troversy in which, almost more than haig bevies of odalisques. any other, the arguments of either Only eight countries were represide seem' irresistible until you have sented when the first International heard those of the other. To my Alliance met in Berlin in 1908. At mind, the greatest objection to execu-this meeting there will be no fewer tions is that they necessitate some than 40, But now Germany will not man being the executioner; and it bbe represented. The Nazis are driv-seems an appalling thing thai anyone ing women out of public life and in-should thus be set aside, a marked dependence back to the kitchen and man wherever he gees. Did you ever the nursery.

Some even of their see a one act play called "Monsieur

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