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THE INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE 865 members in the last National Assembly, 155 in the Parliaments of the Federated States and 4,000 on local and municipal bodies. In Denmark the record of success that followed the election of women was astonishing. "We have done," said the spokeswoman, "what we set out to do ; we have introduced equal pay and equal marriage laws; our equality is a fact." Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the Alliance, welcomed each new representative in the name of all the countries, and, al- though the victories had been won in times of stress and war, the rejoicing was without rivalry, for in the Congress from the first day until the last no sign or mark of ill-feeling or enmity was to be found. Not that the delegates forgot or disregarded the recent ence of the war; no one who saw them would suppose for a moment that they were meeting in any blind or sentimental paradise of fools. Their differences and their nations' differences were plain in their minds and they neither forgot nor wished to forget the ruined areas, the starving children and the suffering peoples of the world. They met differing perhaps profoundly in their national sentiment, their memories and their judgments but determined to agree where agreement was to be found; to understand where un- derstanding could be arrived at and to cooperate with the very best of their will and their intelligence in assuring the future stability of the world. An important report was that of the Headquarters Committee, consisting of Mrs. Catt, Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, first vice- president of the Alliance, Mrs. Adela Stanton Coit, treasurer, ami Miss Macmillan. Mrs. Coit was chairman the first two years and Mrs. Fawcett the rest of the time. After the Congress at Buda- pest in 1913 the official monthly paper Jus Suffragii was rcm from Rotterdam to London and the international headquarters otablished there. For the next seven years the three incinbei > of the committee resident in London held regular meetings seventy altogether, consulting Mrs. Catt by letter or cable when necessary. - Mary Sheepshanks was editor and hcadqnarh :ary. occupied that post with great acceptance till ip rejxjrt, "when it was with much regret that her resignation was accepted. Mrs. i h Abbott was appointed to the D with the preparations fur the present < gress her organizing cap ifl been of special value." Mi- Rosika Scliwiini: y was appointed press secr< to furnish the news to the international presfl but her work had