54:"⊠It has been a revelation to work with you, and our association for a noble ideal, the opening of the gates of public life to Maltese women, has been marked by signal success under the will of Heaven ⊠Through the cooperation of our friends in every walk of life, and through the support of the Labour Party and the GWU in the Assem-bly. We were privileged to see our long campaign in the press and in the Assembly crowned with victory, a victory doubly dear as the î-nal voice had, as Sir Harold MacMichael observes, no dissentient note from an Assembly wholly converted to the great Cause ⊠I believe The Road to Womenâs Suffrage and Beyond41that the Association has achieved the objects laid down in its original charter, and that the country can be best served by the mutual coop-eration of men and women in all spheres of public life".
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England and America as a result of the excellence of womenâs work during the Great War of 1914-1918. To-day after nearly four and a half years of war, women in Malta are becoming conscious that they have earned the same civic recognitionâ.
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35:(1933-2021), professor at Cambridge University. She was active as a journalist in London in the 1920s, and later worked at the Times of Malta.
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