One group of women, however, is evidently determined to do something communally. At the recent meeting fof the Women's Central Advisory Committees of all the Conservative and. Unionist Associations—that is. the most important political organi tion for women, over 3,000 of them being present—an overwh. Iming vole was given against the abolition of corporal punishment proposed in. Sic Samuel Hoare's judicial reform Bill. The few who defended it. were searcely allowed a hearing. They, of course, included Lady Astor (who, like a certain once famous drama has "never posed as being or When she sarcastically" urged. her audience to read the committee's report, there were shouts of "We have read it," and her reply was drowned eries of disapproval. The unfortunate Captain Peake, Under-Sceretary for Home Affairs, who was present to defend his chief, rashly said that "the needless infliction of pain fon any human being is a thing to be avoided"; which evoked shouts of "What about the victim And there's the rub. The controversy has since been carried fiercely in "the correspondence columns of the "Daily Telegraph," and both here and in the conference the evidence is that women are over-
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