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 WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN MANY COUNTRIES 793 was dissolved. In the autumn of 1913 a new Law of Assemblies was passed from which the section so bitterly opposed was omitted and in fact the women had been defying it. They began at once a nation-wide suffrage organization, which affiliated with the International Alliance. The next year the country was immersed in a World War which continued over four years. At the end of it the Government passed into the hands of the people. The new constitution provided that all women over 20 should have full suffrage and eligibility to all offices, national and State, on the same terms as men. For the first elections the following February the Austrian Union of Suffrage Societies and the National Coun- cil of Women worked together and it was estimated that 2,000,- ooo women voted ; eight were elected to the National Constituent Assembly, twelve to the city council of Vienna and 126 to other municipal councils. HUNGARY. Women were not prohibited from political activities in Hungary as in Austria and when the International Woman Suffrage Alliance was formed in Berlin in 1904 Rosika Schwimmer came from Budapest with a report that in IQOO Francis Kossuth and "Louis Hentaller were advocating woman suffrage in the Parlia- ment and in 1903 women were working with men for political reforms. By 1905 a Woman Suffrage Association was formed, 'iary to the International, mass meetings were held and peti- tions were sent to the Parliament. Tn 1006 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. the international president, and Dr. Aletta Jacobs, president of the Netherlands National Association, visited Budapest and addressed enthusiastic meetings. Later Baroness Alexandra Cripenborcr f Finland and Mrs. Dora Montefiore of England did the same. Strenuous agitation was kept up, meetings, pro- re^inns. demonstrations, and half a million leaflets were distrib- uted. The Government was to discuss a Reform Bill in 1008 and a determined effort was made to keep the women out of the House of Parliament as spectators. Mrs. fnft paid another visit that ve ten lectures in eight cities. Floquent women speakers went to the aid of the Hunrnrinn women from Berlin,
 * rh. Berne. Turin nnrl Rotterdam. In TOT o the conservative

National Tonnci! of Women added a woman suffrage committee