at nothing must be done. By 1911 a Woman Suffrage Committee
was doing a good deal of active suffrage work and women's
organizations were being formed in the political parties but the
Social Democratic was the only one that favored equal suffrage. For a
number of years the women endeavored to secure the nomination of a
woman candidate for the Bohemian Diet but were always unsuccessful.
Finally in 1912 the Social Democratic and a section of the Liberal
party each nominated a woman and by the most heroic effort and a
combination of fortunate circumstances the latter, Mrs.
Vikova-Kuneticka, a prominent writer and suffragist, was elected on
June 13. The Governor of the district, doubting her eligibility,
delayed issuing the certificate; the Diet did not meet; the War came
on and after it ended Bohemia assumed her own government with equal
rights for women, and she took her seat.

In the newly organized country of Czecho-Slovakia woman suffrage
prevailed throughout and in 1920 thirteen women were elected to the
Lower and three to the Upper House of the National Parliament. The new
Parliament of Jugo-Slavia voted against woman suffrage.

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It is practically impossible to give an accurate account of the
situation in regard to the suffrage and office-holding of women in the
re-alignment which took place in central and southeastern Europe after
the war. The States which were formed with new or changed boundaries
all began with the declaration of absolute democracy, equal suffrage
for men and women and eligibility to all offices. At their first
elections women in some of them were elected to the Parliaments and
city councils of the new regime. Poland, restored, gave universal
suffrage, and elected eight to the Parliament. Its women are strongly
organized and very capable. It is not possible to foretell the future
of these experiments in democracy. It has been reported from time to
time that the suffrage had been given to women in Bulgaria, Roumania
and Serbia and then denied but at present they do not seem to be
exercising it. (1920.)

SWITZERLAND.

Switzerland, like France, is a republic only in name, as women are
wholly disfranchised. It is now the only country where the question of
woman suffrage has to be submitted to the individual voters. To give
women the franchise for the Federal Council that body must submit the
question to all the voters, and to give it in each Canton of th