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Old 14-03-18, 03:17 PM
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Here's my updated collection of WW1 Conscription debate buttons.

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Mick
It was Interesting to see the name of Adela Pankhurst on the leaflet.

Adela Pankhurst was the lesser known daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst of the Womens Social and Political Union (WSPU), better known as the "Suffragettes".

Like her sisters, Christabel and Sylvia, Adela also took part in the miltant fight for "Votes for Women" in Britain before the war. However, she was "sent" to Australia.

Post 1914 Christabel was handing out white feathers to men not in uniform. She then became editor of a really right wing pro war newspaper called "Britannia", actually the re-named Suffragette newspaper.

This paper was anti German, anti foreign, and anti conscientious objector. So right wing it would have been called Fascist a few years later. So much so that her side kick & co-editor Norah Elam actually became a member of the British Union of Fascists. Under her married name of Mrs Dacre-Fox she was Mosleys candidate for one of the Brighton seats, and was interned under Regulation 18b in 1940.

Sylvia, leader of the "ELFS" (East London Federation of Suffragettes) was speaking against the war and against conscription and got in a lot of trouble over her stand. For example, he was pelted with rotten fruit etc at Horsham in the summer of 1916. The police had to link arms to hold back the crowd then get her to the railway station and out of town pdq.

Like her sister Christabel, Adela also travelled to the right. She was interned in Australia in WW2 for being pro Japanese.

https://www.theguardian.com/australi...ustralian-life
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