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THE INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE 823 Councils, seven non-affiliated national associations for woman suffrage and eleven national organizations in sympathy with it. Mrs. Catt introduced Mrs. Henry Dobson, sent by the Common- wealth of Australia; Miss Gina Krog, sent by the government of Xorway; Dr. Romania Penrose, Mrs. Helen L. Grenfell and Mrs. Harriet O. Sheik, appointed by the Governors of Utah, Colorado and Wyoming, U. S. A. The following countries had their full quota of six delegates : Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Netherlands, Nor- way, Sweden, United States, and nearly all had six alternates. Russia had five delegates ; Finland, Switzerland and South Africa two each ; Italy, Bulgaria, Australia and Canada one each. Miss ( 'hrystal Macmillan of Scotland represented the International Council of Women; Dr. C. V. Drysdale, the Men's League for Women's Enfranchisement of Great Britain; Mrs. Marie Lang, the Austrian Committee for Woman Suffrage; Miss Franciska Plaminkova and Miss Marie Stepankova, the Czechish Woman Suffrage Committee of Bohemia; Mrs. Alice M. Steele, New Zealand the last three countries not yet affiliated. All kinds of organizations sent fraternal delegates, from the Union of Ethical Societies in London, whose delegate was Stanton Coit, their leader, to the Society of Peasant Women in Balmazujvaros, Hungary. This was doubtless in many respects the most remarkable and important gathering of women ever assembled up to that time. !ish, French and German were adopted as the official lan- guages. The wise and sympathetic management of Mrs. Catt convinced those of all nations that impartiality and justice would til without exception; a common bond united them; they learned that in all countries the obstacles to woman suffrage were the same and that in all women were oppressed by the inequality of the laws and by their disenfranchisement, and they understood the influence which could be exerted through an international movement. There were occasional misunderstandings on count of the varied parliamentary procedure in different omn- tries and because of the interpreting much that took but on the whole the del* .iti-hcd. They had