Here is The Woman's Voice symposium, meeting once again to examine anew woman's position in the coming elections. This time it meets at the home of Mrs. Najla Saab, one of the prominent women's figures of this country, with a distinguished group of ladies: Laure Tabet, president of the League of Women's Organizations; Mari Yanni Ata Allah, one of the pioneers in the fields of patriotism and journalism; and Habiba Yakan, president of the Young Muslim Women's Association. As for the woman of letters Mrs. Anbara Salam Khalidi, she was absent for compelling reasons.

Our ladies began the discussion without preliminaries — "the iron is hot," and the subject has occupied minds ever since election day drew near. The first proposal laid on the table for discussion was that woman should demand a seat

reserved for her in the Chamber... "because such an arrangement would make the elections easier for her and for the man," said Najla Saab.

That is so, agreed Laure Tabet, saying: "I read a proposal of this kind in one of the magazines, from the lips of a Pakistani lady, and I took it to His Excellency the President, who convinced me that the second step for us women, after we have won our full political right, is to struggle like the men to assert our personality..."

"In Chile," added Mari Ata Allah, "woman has reached, by her free efforts, the strength of her personality, and her sense of duty, a prominent position: she is a member of the Senate. But here, where the man is bought and sold at election time, woman must unite under the shelter of the women's organizations, whose duty it should

be to take charge of these matters and to put forward a lady to represent them in the elections — a woman of high character, a self-sacrificing spirit, sound understanding, energy, and patriotism..."

"The women's organizations," Laure Tabet interrupted her, "are not a political party, that we should nominate one of our number and back her; but..."

"But," insisted Mari Ata Allah, "the organizations must, at this important stage, give proof of their solidarity and their confidence in woman, adopting a free patriotic personality and guaranteeing her success."

"I should like to draw Mrs. Ata Allah's attention," said Najla Saab, "to a simple and important matter... Adoption always rests upon a definite political principle. We in the women's organizations have no unified political principle among us, and each of our associations follows its own policy and its own principles... But the organizations must encourage the woman candidate and support her... As women, we believe in woman's right,