BRITISH LIBERAL FEDERATION

Taihape Daily Times, 30 September 1918, Page 4

BRITISH LIBERAL FEDERATION

WOMEN'S PLACE IN THE WORLD. Received 8.50 a.m LONDON, September 29 The National Liberal Federation lias passed a resolution in favour of the admission of women professors to share in the adminstration of justice and to seats in Parliament. Mr Asquith, addressing the Federation, said they must be on guard so that the unexampled sacrifices will not be frittered away, “They will be frittered away," he said “unless we can procure a peace which does not offend' the aonfseicncc either of the victim of of the rest of mankind. We can have no clean peace if there is to be a continuation of veiled w r ar or a peace designed to inflict permanent humiliation and dismemberment. The Austrian Peace Note was impracticable; the only acceptable peace was one giving self determination and security to all nations, large and small. It is in the highest degree undesirable To have a general election during the war to dissipate our energy and break up national unity. Nothing in the war suggests that we shall be better off after peace by any system of tariffs—preferential, differential, punitive or prohibitive