A lady from Tiffin, Ohio and 299 other feminists from 30 countries appeared triumphant last week in the Royal Yildiz Harem of Abdul Hamid "The Damned" (deposed 1909, died 1918). "As President of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship." crisply observed Britain's Margery Corbett Ashby, "I think we can all feel that 1934 was a notable year. In 1934 the women of Brazil and the women of Turkey were accorded the vote and equal status with men!"
To have these triumphs celebrated in Yildiz, for centuries the most glamorous and...
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