Premier’s Position: Reply to a Woman Suffrage Deputation: When the deputation of the Northern Men’s Federation for Woman Suffrage visited London, last week, to interview the Prime Minister, they were disappointed that they were not received by Mr. Asquith. Mr. J. Wilson McLaren, of Edinburgh, yesterday, received the following letter from the Prime Minister’s Private Secretary: “I am desired by the Prime Minister to acknowledge the receipt of the memorial from the Northern Men’s Federation for Woman Suffrage, which you were good enough to leave at his residence. Mr. Asquith has studied the memorial with care, hut has been unable to discover any arguments in favour of woman suffrage which he has not dealt with in his speeches (1) in reply to a large woman suffrage deputation which waited on him at Downing Street (2) in the House of Commons on the withdrawal of the Franchise and Registration Bill, and (3), on Mr. Dickinson’s Woman Suffrage Bill. These speeches, to which l am instructed to refer you, are to be found in reports given by “The Times” newspaper on November 18, 1911: January 21, 1913; and May 7, 1914. The Prime Minister can find no reason for changing the position which he took up in these speeches, and to arguments and answers which they contain he has nothing to add. — Yours faithfully, G. D. Pinsent.” (sic)
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GRO0365 Devonport: Gerald Hume Saverie Pinsent: 1888 – 1976