1 — Djamila Bouhired: the young Algerian fighter, inmate of the French prison in Algiers, whom the military court had sentenced to death, dealing her every kind of torture and abuse to wring from her a word about the hiding place of the leader of the revolution.
Last month the President of the French Republic announced that Djamila was spared execution, in deference to the pressure of world public opinion, exerted through the protests and demonstrations that arose in every Arab and Western country of the world, in condemnation of brutality and humiliation in the age of freedom and light.
The name of Djamila Bouhired has become a symbol of heroism, of honor, and of the Arab woman's struggle in the battle of dignity and liberation.
2 — The Empress Soraya: the former wife of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. It is said that she is
the woman whose pictures have been taken most often and published on the prominent pages of newspapers and magazines in every part of the world...
The hearts of women in particular have taken her side, because she tasted happiness at the side of her husband the Emperor, yet her happiness remained mingled with deep pain and her smile crowned with tears, for nature denied her the blessing of motherhood, and of bearing an heir to the throne of Iran.
At the beginning of this past April the Emperor Mohammad addressed the Iranian people on the occasion of the feast of Nowruz and said: It grieves me not to share with you the joys of the feast, for my soul is sad at my distance from my beloved Soraya. — Soraya now lives in Switzerland with her mother and her brother, after the deed of her divorce from the Shah was signed on the sixth of this past April — an event that shook the world, for all that the world had been expecting it...