She does not forget the past... her bitter past, filled with struggle for the sake of obtaining her political and social rights.

It once happened that the women of England went on strike, refus-ing to give anything to the State until they should win their rights.

Then the First War was declared.

So the women proclaimed a truce and began anew to offer their services in the public fields.

And Britain has not forgotten this noble stand of her women.

Princess Elizabeth and her child, the Prince

In Britain, 60 percent of the women exercise the right to vote.

You may see the women of Britain in the streets of London or on the bus, one of them seated with the morning or evening paper in her hand, reading every letter of it.

Most British women understand their domestic politics thoroughly. And the English woman enjoys man's full respect.

Woman in Pakistan has the right to vote and to stand as a candidate. The women's movement there is led by three ladies: the first is Fatima Jinnah,

sister of Mohammad Ali Jinnah; the second is Begum Liaquat Ali Khan, wife of the Prime Minister; and the third is Ikramullah, wife of the Under-Secretary of the Foreign Ministry, and a member of Parliament.

Woman in Pakistan is making a great effort in the art of nursing. There are today 26 institutions for graduating nurses, from which ten thousand nurses graduate every year. The Minister of Health broadcast a statement to the ladies of Pakistan in which he said:

'In the Prophet's day, women would accompany their husbands to the fields of battle and take

"A Pakistani beauty"

charge of caring for the wounded and the sick... and I am confident that the ladies of Pakistan today will not forget this example.'

The papers have been full of talk these days about Margaret, daughter of President Truman, who works as a singer and who recently gave a concert at Carnegie Hall, for which she was paid 1,200 dollars.

Margaret considers the newspa-permen the source of her troubles: they are forever coupling her

name with the name of some candidate for her hand, and Margaret is compelled to deny the rumors that circulate about her.

Margaret has begged the news-papermen to leave off these falsehoods, which injure her repu-tation — 'and which will end by no one ever asking me for a date again... and I should hate to have my admirers fall away from me..!'

Then she says: 'It seems they have all forgotten that I still have eight years before I reach the age at which my mother married..!'

Margaret's age is now 24 — which means that Madame Truman married at thirty-two...