English Suffragist to Speak.
A representative English suffragist, the Honorable Mrs. Bertrand Russell of London, who is Chairman of the Executive Com-mittee of the Constitutional Suf-fragists of England under the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, of which Mrs. Henry Fawcett is president, is to speak on “Why English Women Need the Vote in Time of War,” tomorrow at 4 o’clock, at Rumford Hall, 50 East Forty-first Street. The lecture is under the auspices of the Educational Section of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party, whose members are Mrs. Winston Churchill, Chairman: Mrs. John W. Alexander, Mrs. John Blair, Mrs. Bourke Cockran, Mrs. Magee Ellsworth, Mrs. Reginald Fincke, Mrs. Philip Lydig, Miss Marjorie Nott, Mrs. Ernest Peele, Mrs. Joseph S. Stevens, Mrs. Edgerton L. Winthrop, Jr.
NYT Mar 14, 1916
Mrs. Bertrand Russell to Speak.
Mrs. Bertrand Russell of England is to speak on the subject of “Why English Women Need the Vote in Time of War” in Rumford Hall, 50 East Fortieth Street on Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock. The speaker, who is known in England as the Hon. Mrs. Russell, has come to America as a representative of the National Union, whose president is Mrs. Henry Fawcett, wife of the late Postmaster General.She speaks here under the auspices of the Educational Section of the New York State Suffrage Party. Mrs. Howard Mansfield is Chairman of that section. Mrs. Russell is an American by birth, the daughter of Mrs. Hannah Whittall Smith, A Quakeress, and pioneer suffragist here. She is the cousin of Miss M. Carey Thomas, President of Bryn Mawr College and of Mrs. Simon Flexner of New York.
NYT Mar 20, 1916
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WANTS OLD MEN TO FIGHT.
Mrs. Bertrand Russell Favors Armies Made Up of the Aged.
Mrs. Bertrand Russell, suffrage worker and philanthropist, daugh-ter of the pioneer suffragist of America, Hannah Whitall Smith, and wife of the English philo-sopher, Bertrand Russell, speaking on the subject, “Why English Women Need the Vote in Time of War,” at Rumford Hall, 50 East Forty-first Street, yesterday afternoon said she did not believe in women fighting or drilling and that she would not send any except the older men to the battlefield.
It was at the close of the address that a woman in the audience asked Mrs. Russell if the English and French women had followed the example of the Slav women of going to the front with the men.
“Some of the French women have done it, but I am thankful to say no Englishwomen have done so,” said Mrs. Russell. “It would be the end of all things if the women were allowed to fight. For the women even to practice shooting is a great mistake. We don’t want to increase the number of combatants. If I had my way, I’d say, ‘don’t let any of the men go to the battlefield before they are 60 or 70.’ We don’t want to lose our healthiest and youngest. It would be perfectly fair, wouldn’t it, if everyone did the same?”
Mrs. Russell continued:
“The women in England are very capable, and as we win battles not only with the men in the field, but with the workers at home, the Englishwomen have answered the question that I have argued so many times with army and navy men that women should not vote because they cannot fight. We cannot fight and I am glad of it, but we can work.” Mrs. Winston Churchill presided.
NYT Mar 23, 1916
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CAMBRIDGE DROPS RUSSELL.
Rector, Who Married American, Convicted Under Defense of Realm Act.
Special Cable to
The New York Times.
LONDON, Friday, July 14-The Times says the Council of Trinity College, Cambridge, has removed the Hon. Bertrand Russell from his rectorate in logic and principles of mathematics in consequence of his conviction under the Defense of the Realm act.
Russell was fined at Mansion House on June 5 for making state-ments in a leaflet issued in the “No Conscription Fellowship” which were intended to prejudice re-cruiting.
Russell married Alys Smith of Philadelphia.
The Hon. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, who is the heir of Earl Russell, was fined $500 and costs, with the alternative of sixty-one days’ imprisonment, for having written a leaflet defending the “Conscientious Objector” to service in the British Army.
He is well known in this country, having been for several years visiting lecturer on mathematics and philosophy at Harvard University, while his wife is the daughter of a Quaker merchant and preacher in Philadelphia, R. Pearsall Smith. Her mother was the famous Hannah Whitall Smith, author of “A Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life,” which has been translated into many languages and has reached a circulation of more than 1,000,000. During March she was here delivering a series of lectures on behalf of the National Union of Women Suffrage Societies.
The Hon. Bertrand Russell was a lecturer and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and had a most distinguished career at the university. While a student there he took the first class in mathematics and moral sciences, and has since written a number of widely read books, the last of which, published in 1914, was “Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy.”
He is one of several of the “intellectuals” of England who have gone on record as opposed to conscription. Others of these are Professors Gilbert Murray, Regious Professor of Greek at Oxford University; C. P. Trevelyan, M. P., son of the private secretary of the late Queen Victoria.
NYT Jul 14, 1916
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