NAWSA     GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE     International Woman Suffrage Alliance-1937

TELEPHONE:  VICTORIA 0285                                      TELEGRAMS:  VOCORAJTO, LONDON

INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FOR SUFFRAGE AND EQUAL CITIZENSHIP
ALLIANCE INTERNATIONALE POUR LE SUFFRAGE ET L'ACTION CIVIQUE ET
POLITIQUE DES FEMMES
WELTBLUND FUR FRAUENSTIMMRECHT UND STAATSBURGERLICHE FRAUENARBEIT

Hon. President and Founder:  MRS. CHAPMAN CATT.
Hon. Vice-Presidents:  MISS FRANCES M. STERLING;  FRAU ADELE SCHREIBER.

BOARD:
President:  MRS. CORBETT ASHBY, 33, Upper Richmond Road, London, S.W. 15, England.
First Vice-President:  ROSA MANUS (Holland).
Second Vice-President:  FRANTISKA PLAMINKOVA (Czechoslavakia).
Third Vice-President:  GERMAINE MALATERRE-SELLIER (France).
Fourth Vice-President:  HODA CHARAOUI (Egypt).
Treasurer:  E. H. PIEPERS (Holland).
Corresponding Secretary:  EMILIE GOULD (Switzerland).

Members:  MILENA ATANATSKOVITCH (Jugoslavia), MARIE
GINSBERG (Poland), INGEBORG HANSEN (Denmark), D.
LUTZ (Brazil), ALISON NEILANS (Great Britain), DHANVANTHI
RAMA RAU (India), MARCELLE RENSON (Belgium), BESSIE
RISCHBIETH (Australia), JOSEPHINE SCHAIN (U.S.A.), NINA
SPILLER (Great Britain), ANNA SZELAGOWSKA (Poland),
MARIE WOLFOVA (Czechoslovakia).

Auxiliaries in 39 Countries.  Minimum Affiliation Fee 2 pounds.

OFFICIAL MONTHLY ORGAN:  ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION 6s.

THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S NEWS
   (JUS SUFFRAG!!)
HEADQUARTERS SECRETARY:
KATHERINE BOMPAS
HEADQUARTERS:
12. BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD
LONDON S.W. 1.  ENGLAND.

Representative in Geneva:  Emilie Gourd, Crete de Pregny, Geneva.

11th January 1937

Dear Mrs. Catt,

   Mrs Corbett Ashby who is over-worked as usual, has just asked me to 
write to you about the Philippines, and I will do my best though she 
herself has conducted previous correspondence with you and I have not
 the letters here to refer to, and am not sure where the question stands.

   However, she has asked me to tell you that Lady Pares, who has a
really first-class experience in organising both for our suffrage 
movement here, and in the political field (elections, etc), would be 
ready to go to the Philippines and devote a month or two months to
 helping the women there with their campaign for the plebiscite of women
 on the question of woman suffrage.  Lady Pares is really a very charming 
and tactful person, and Mrs. Ashby thinks that she would be able to offer 
help and and advice in a way which would not be irritating or condescending.
  She is at present in the South of France as she needs a rather warmer
 winter climate than ours, and would be very willing to set off as soon
 as possible, if money could be found for her steamship fare.  She would 
herself look after the other expenses but she cannot afford this rather 
big item, which she calculates would mean about 100 pounds.

Mrs. Ashby thinks that the Alliance could find something towards this,
 but I understand that she has already enquired from you whether there 
might be some money available in the States for such a really well-
equipped woman as Lady Pares.  Because the question is urgent in view 
of the time-limit for holding the plebiscite, Mrs. Ashby would be profoundly
 grateful if, unless you have already written to her, you would 
be so kind as to send a cable to say whether any funds, and if so to
 what amount, would be forthcoming from your side for this purpose.

   I do hope this is clear and follows on sufficiently connectedly 
with previous correspondence.

   Perhaps though a little late, I may send you my best wishes for 1937.

Yours sincerely, 
Katherine Bompas
Headquarters Secretary

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