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 THE INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE 863 time women from India and Japan came to tell of the beginnings of the organized movement among the women of the East. It was only the difficulties of travel which prevented the delegates who had started on their journeys from China, Egypt and Pales- tine from arriving in time for the congress. For the first time more than half the voting delegates represented countries in which women had the full suffrage. The consequent increased political importance of the congress was recognized by the govern- ments of the world, of which eighteen in Europe appointed official representatives, and the United States of America and Uruguay of South America. The Secretariat of the League of Nations also sent a representative. . . . "The outstanding feature of the first business sesion was the announcement of particulars by representatives of the many nations which had given the political and suffrage and elibility to women between 1913 and 1920 Austria, British East Africa, Canada, Crimea, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, Esthonia, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iceland, Lettonia, Lithuania, Luxem- burg, the Netherlands, Poland, Rhodesia, Russia, Sweden, Ukrainia and six more of the United States. It was announced that women sit as members of Parliament in the majority of these countries, while large numbers are members of municipal councils. In the United States of America the Federal Suffrage Amendment had passed both Houses of Congress and had been ratified by thirty-five of the necessary thirty-six States. Serbia, Belgium and Roumania had granted Municipal suffrage to women and the Zionists of Palestine and the Commune of Finnic had given to them full equal suffrage and eligibility. ... It was decided to arrange at the next congress a session at which only cnfran- 1 women should speak. . . . The Catholic Woman Suf- frage Society of Great 1 Britain was accepted as a member of the Alliance. . . . "Each of the three evening ni ;hat of Sun which were all crowded and enthusi. of a different aspect of the present development of the sn Move- ment. On Monday, a special feature as tin- speeches of five women members of Parliament Helen Ring Robinson (State Senate), Colorado; Elna Munch, I 1 nnic I nnilijclm,