Tue. 03, 1954 - Cairo Women persist in their fast Egyptian suffregettes: Dr. Doria Shafik...

Tue. 03, 1954 - Cairo Women persist in their fast Egyptian suffregettes: Dr. Doria Shafik (38) and her twenty companions are persisting in their fast in an effort to pursue the authorities to allow women to vote for the Constiuent Assembly of the new Egypt. President Neguib sent his legal adviser Dr. Hafez to beg the women to end their fast in the hope that the Constituent Assembly, even if elected only by men, would confer electoral rights on women. The plea was in vain Among many telegrams received by the Egyptian Suffragettes was one from Dr. Edith Summerskill the British Socialist M.P. for Fulham West in which Dr. Summerskill said” Many British women watch with sympathy your courageous efforts to secure democratic rights. Photo shows Dr. Doria Shafik seen during her” fast to the death” in Cairo