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 WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN MANY COUNTRIES 803 in some of them women are permitted to vote and hold office. Before the outbreak of the War there was some suffrage among the property owning women in the Jewish colonization of Pales- tine. After it was taken by General Allenby the Jewish Provi- sional Assembly called to arrange for a National Constituent mbly provided that women as well as men should vote for it. There was opposition from the orthodox but the liberal element prevailed. They vote and belong to the political organizations and also have their own, which work for the improvement of the civil and legal position of women. They have united in a national .iiization and become auxiliary to the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Women have been elected to city councils and even to the National Assembly. When Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt visited China in 1912 she found that women had taken part in the revolution and not only had voted for the new Parliament but had been elected to it. These privileges were afterwards taken away but they organized societies to get them again. Mrs. Catt kept in touch with these societies and in 1913 they were accepted as auxiliary to the Alli- ance. They are still keeping up the struggle for political rights. There is only the nucleus of a movement for woman suffrage in Japan but some of the statesmen favor it and women's societies petition for it. t'nder the- auspices of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union a beginning has been made toward organi/a- tion. Women are not allowed to attend political meetings and their position is very restricted but this year (1921) they have a 1:1 eat deal of public work for peace. The Japanese Gov- ernment is progressing rapidly and the results will eventually be seen in an improved status of women. SOUTH AMI-.RK .. Women occupy an advanced position in Argentina in education, in business and in organi/cd work. They have had during the past twenty years an excellent training through the- National Council of Women and they have < much influence in public affairs. They were slow in entering the movement for woman suffrage but by i<)j<> they ere sufficiently l I )i. licia Moreau, to send a representative to the 001 of the International. lliain md IK- n u auxiliary. Large mecr