Women’s Suffrage: Premier’s Reply to Mens’ Deputation: Views Quite Unchanged: … … When the deputation of Northern Men’s Federation for Women’s 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, to-day received the following from the Prime Minister’s private secretary: “I am desired by the Prime Minister to acknowledge the receipt of a memorial from the Northern Men’s Federation for Women’s Suffrage, which you were good enough to leave at his official residence. Mr. Asquith has studied the memorial with care but has been unable to discover any arguments in favour of women’s suffrage which he has not dealt with in his speeches. (1) In reply to large women’s suffrage deputations which waited on him at Downing-street; (2) in the House of Commons on the withdrawal the Franchise and Registration Bill; and Mr. Dickinson’s Women’s Suffrage Bill. These speeches, to which I am instructed to refer you, are to be found in the reports given by the ‘Times’ newspaper on Nov. 13, 1911; Jan. 23. 1913; and May 1913. The Prime Minister can find no reason for changing the position which he took up in the speeches and to arguments and answers which they contain he has nothing to add. — Yours faithfully, G. D. Pinsent.” [sic]
[see similar Hull Daily Mail: Wednesday 18th February 1914, Nottingham Evening Post: Wednesday 18th February 1914]
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GRO0365 Devonport: Gerald Hume Saverie Pinsent: 1888 – 1976