ment was
overthrown by a plebiscite, the King returned and the congress was
deferred until April, 1921. At that time a hundred societies of women
sent delegates. It was opened by Premier Gounaris and the King and
Queen were present. Woman suffrage was the leading feature and several
Cabinet Ministers announced the intention of the Government to confer
it. Queen Sophia decorated Madame Parron, president of the congress,
and thanked her for devoting her life to the progress of Greek women.
There have been the usual delays but the women will probably be
enfranchised in the not distant future.

SPAIN. The women of Spain labor under great disadvantages in trying to
obtain the franchise, as the Catholic church, which is all-powerful,
is not in favor of it. The King and Queen are friendly and a number of
the statesmen are ready to assist. The Cabinet in 1919 proposed a bill
which would give a vote to all women over 23 years old and it was
placed on the program of the Republican party. There are eight or ten
suffrage societies in different cities united in a Supreme Feminist
Council, which holds congresses and has presented to the Parliament
petitions signed by thousands of women asking for complete political
and legal equality. It is an auxiliary of the International Alliance.

There have been attempts to organize for woman suffrage in Portugal.
Travellers in various districts of Turkey report that in some of them
women are permitted to vote and hold office.

Before the outbreak of the War there was some suffrage among the
property owning women in the Jewish colonization of Palestine. After
it was taken by General Allenby the Jewish Provisional Assembly called
to arrange for a National Constituent Assembly provided that women as
well as men should vote for it. There was opposition from the orthodox
but the liberal element prevailed. They vote and belong to the
political organizations and also have their own, which work for the
improvement of the civil and legal position of women. They have united
in a national organization and become auxiliary to the International
Woman Suffrage Alliance. Women have been elected to city councils and
even to the National Assembly.

When Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt visited China in 1912 she found that
women had taken part in the revolution and not only had voted for the
new Parliament but had been elected to it. These privileges were
afterwards taken away but they organized societies to get t