Sorry, Jim. No intention to diminish your admiration or to dishonour anyone's memory. But I cannot share either your admiration for that quixotic self-destructive gesture, which, by its very immoderacy, was as likely to be counterproductive, as productive of the desired outcome; or your assessment of its ultimate effect. The winning of the female franchise was surely far more influenced by women's selfless and positive contribution to the 1914-18 War Effort, than by anything else.

~M~