others, and not with me.

What I have learned is that the regional congress is to be held at the opening of the year 1948, and that the unions of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Transjordan, Iraq, Egypt, Iran, Turkey, and Greece will take part in it.

As for the aim of these regional congresses, it is to study the con-ditions of woman in each region, and to study her problems, so as to widen the scope of her renaissance and raise the level of her culture and her thought.

And I said to Dr. Rydh: Do you not see that most of the projects of the women's movement in the world are still nearer to fancy than to reality? Why, then, does the International Union not pre-pare practical projects that would benefit woman and strengthen her renaissance? Her answer was that the International Women's Union is poor, and there is not in its treasury money enough for spending on such projects. She said also that woman alone tends her own renaissance, despite her helplessness and her poverty, and that had the governments taken a share in encouraging the women's

movement, our success would have been greater. In any case, the condition of woman in the world is in constant improvement, and she has already covered great distances on the course of progress: for the first time in the history of France, the Frenchwoman has been given the right to vote, and no long time will pass before we find the women of the world enjoying their political rights in full.

Dr. Rydh spoke to me of the aims of the International Women's Union. She said that the Union aims in the first degree at freeing woman from the social fetters imposed by certain outworn traditions which still stand in many countries; then at facilitating her education; and at demanding her right to the vote.

I felt that the hour was drawing near nine, and that my journalist colleague must be waiting for me at the hotel; so I put to my inter-locutor the last question, which was: why does the International Women's Union not think of issuing a magazine in the three languages — "English, French, and Arabic" — to be printed at the seat of the International Union and

distributed to the women's unions of the world?!

Dr. Rydh returned to saying that what the Union lacks is money; when sufficient money is available, we shall be able to issue a women's magazine in the three languages; our circumstances at the present time do not permit the issuing of more than one magazine, in English.

Here Mrs. Huda Hanem Shaarawi joined in the conversation, and praised the magazine "The Woman's Voice," which appears in Beirut, saying that it is the finest of the women's magazines appearing in the Arab East. I shared Her Ladyship's esteem, and said that Mrs. Heneni Tarcha has deserved, for her efforts, every admiration, praise, and encourage-ment; and I assured Huda Hanem that the magazine is meeting with great circulation.

The Woman's Voice: We thank Her Ladyship the venerable leader for her feeling toward this magazine, and we thank Mr. Shaghouri for his generous support. There is no doubt that these two testimonies are what encourages us to march ever forward.