From left to right: Widad Suhrawardi; Mrs. Karima al-Haydari, the president; Miss Suad al-Umari, the vice-president; Nuzha Aqrawi; the lawyer Miss Sabiha al-Sheikh Daoud, the secretary; Mrs. Samia al-Rawi

wife of the late Jamil Pasha al-Rawi, famous for her graciousness in conversation and the breadth of her thought; and when her late husband was ambassador in Jeddah, she was nicknamed by

I was invited to visit this noble institution, of whose services and of the activity of whose members I had heard much, so I accepted the invitation with thanks. It was a Monday morning — the day on which the members gather for work. I made the acquaintance of many of them, and they are truly an elite among the ladies of refined Iraqi society. The president, Mrs. Karima al-Haydari, received me with her famous graciousness, and I saw many of the ladies whom good fortune had granted me to know before — among them the energetic Mrs. Samia

the members of the diplomatic corps "the Ambassadress," and they testified of her that she had been the best of diplomatic secretaries to her husband!

Pupils of the Red Crescent orphanage drinking milk in the dining room