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THE PRESENT POSITION OF THE MOVEMENT
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are pledged, will force the Liberal leaders to grant the Suffrage. The opposition of the Women's Social and Political Union to the Government will continue until such time as Women's Suffrage is granted, whether the Liberal women join us or not, but their co-operation would hasten the day of success.

Some Liberal women are heard to say that they will work for the Suffrage from inside the Liberal Party. How they intend to enforce their demand supposing persuasion to fail they do not explain. To leave the Liberal Party and thenceforward to fight against it seems to an onlooker the only possible way. Other Liberal women claim to regard it as the height of unwisdom to harass the Government. Have they not learnt that a Government pressed by conflicting claims deals with those that are the source of most inconvenience?

Not to Liberal women only, but to the women of all parties one appeals that they will, until they have won the vote, forget Party politics and unite in an independent campaign, having for its object the removal of the political disability of sex.