[6] Of these 8,654,467, more than 7,000,000 were white men enlisted within the British Empire. (See Report of War Cabinet published in August, 1919.) [7] In March, 1919, the Council of the N.U.W.S.S. changed the name of our society to the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, and elected Miss Rathbone as its president. [8] The report of the Speaker's conference was dated January 27th, 1917. The clause recommending woman suffrage ran as follows: VIII. WOMAN SUFFRAGE. The conference decided by a majority that some measure of woman suffrage should be conferred. A majority of the conference was also of opinion that if Parliament should decide to accept the principle, the most practical form would be to confer the vote in the terms of the following resolution: "Any woman on the Local Government Register who has attained a specified age, and the wife of any man who is on that register, if she has attained that age, shall be entitled to be registered and to vote as a parliamentary elector." Various ages were discussed, of which thirty and thirty-five received most favour. The conference further resolved that if Parliament decides to enfranchise women, a woman of the specified age who is a graduate of any University having parliamentary representation shall be entitled to vote as a University elector. INDEX Aberconway, Lord, 151-152 Acland, Mr. F. D., 32-48 Alberta, province of, returns a woman member of L.A., 119 Anderson, Dr. L. G., 97 Antisuffrage press, 71 Antisuffragist Association, 11, 41, 43 —— —— meeting, 70 _Antisuffragist Association Review_, 71 Antisuffragists, calumnies of, 26 _n._ —— rapid conversion of, 117-118 Archbishops, the, support women's suffrage, 149 Asquith, Mr. H. H., rooted hostility to women's suffrage, 1, 11, 12, 13, 14, 27, 44 —— becomes Prime Minister, 2 —— announces intention of bringing in a Reform Bill, 2, 39, 49 —— characteristic blow from, 7, 8 —— speech on second reading of Reform Bill, 1912, 27 —— _Punch's_ pictures of, 16, 52 —— promises regarding women's suffrage, 5, 49 —— deputations to, of suffragists, 8, 17, 18, 61 —— —— of antisuffragists, 11 —— questions addressed to him by N.U.W.S.S., 9 —— forms Coalition Government, 124 —— compares himself to Orpheus, 15 —— —— —— to Stesichorus, 144 —— ceases to be Prime Minister, 139 —— contrasted with the third Duke of Devonshire, 52, 53 —— conversion of, to women's suffrage, 133, 144 —— speech on the death of Edith Cavell, 115 —— moves women's suffrage resolution in House of Commons, 144 —— speech on Women's Clauses of Representation of the People Bill, 144 —— Miss Violet (now Lady Bonham Carter), 17 —— Mrs., 17 Astor, Lady, returned as M.P. for Plymouth, 162 Balfour, Mr. A. J., 32, 114, 121-122, 124 —— of Burleigh, Lord, 148 Bath, Mr. Lloyd George speaks on women's suffrage at, 1912, 24