the Syrian woman her political rights full and undiminished. It presented petitions to the responsi-ble authorities, took a positive part in the committee on the constitu-tion, and presented its proposals. And the Union kept urging the rural woman, who had the right to vote, not to neglect her duty and to hasten to the ballot box to elect the nation's deputies.

The Syrian Arab Women's Union delegated one of its members, Mrs. Isabel Hannawi, to represent it at the UNESCO con-ference in Paris in January. Mrs. Hannawi was able to persuade the responsible men at this conference to concern themselves with the refugee question, particularly on its educational and cultural side. She also obtained a promise from the head of UNESCO to increase their allocations and to extend a helping hand to them. In the wake of the

Union's success in its work, many women's organizations that were not members of it asked to join, and the Union welcomed them.

Iraq

As for the land of the two rivers, it was represented most ably by the gracious Mrs. Ismat, wife of Sabah Bey al-Said, and Miss Adiba Ibrahim.

Mrs. al-Said carried a delicate and sincere greeting from the plains of Mesopotamia to Lebanon, the enchanting garden of the Arab world... She presented a summary of the women's movement and its activity, saying that Iraq goes forward with deliberateness and calm — which does not mean that the women's movement is slow or imperceptible; the stage that the Iraqi woman has traversed in her modern renaissance is worthy of pride, but it lacks publicity, and this, no doubt, is what she is most to be reproached for. In Iraq there are six active women's asso-ciations, each of which has devoted its efforts to one side of social life: the women's branch of the Red Crescent Society, the Society for the Protection of Children, the Society for Combating Social Ills, the Arab Home Society, the Rabita Society, and the Houses of the Nation.

The Iraqi Women's Union publishes a magazine bearing its name, which attends to woman's

own affairs alongside its attention to the general affairs of society.

This Union is a member of the International Women's Union; it also took part in the inter-national women's peace congress and won membership in the world organization for the rights of families. The Iraqi government has ever supported the woman's renaissance, aiding it in both moral and material ways — witness the imposing building whose owner-ship it granted the Union to be the seat of its work, over and above the annual grant fixed for it.

Iraq was the only Arab country

to send women delegates to the meeting of the United Nations Organization in 1947, where they raised the voice of the Arab woman, who desires from her inmost heart to support the men of Arabism in achieving everything that will bring good and standing to her country.

Mrs. Ismat al-Said closed her address with this summing-up, splendid in meaning and expres-sion: "We all feel the same pains... and live by the same hopes... And if the ranks are united, hearts joined, and efforts and hands combined

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