ZUM4917693: 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 / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4917833: Tue 03, 1954 - IRANIAN AMBASSADOR HOWS A PARTY TO Celebrate” FIRST DAY OF SPRING”.. Mr. ALI SOHEILY the Iranian Ambassador to London, and his wife, last evening held a party to celebrate the” First Day of Spring”.. The Spring Festival is a traditional holiday in Persia and it lasts nearly two weeks. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS: - The Persian Ambassador MR. ALI SOHEILY lights a cigarette for Mrs. JALILA KHOSROVANI during the party / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4919321: Tue 03, 1954 - 80 year old actress gets up at 6.30. Miss, the actress, yesterday celebrated her 80th. birthday. She firs appeared on the stage at dewberry, Yorkshire, in 1882, as little wilife in “East Lynne”. Yesterday, her day began at 6.30. a.m. when she got out of bed at her flat in otting hall, w. at 9.0 the telephone rang. It kept her busy acknowledging birthday greetings before going out with her friend, Miss francess flestwood, the authoress. at 11.40 they arrived at the B.B.C. to go over the script for miss reeve's” Women's hour” broadcast at 12.30 they went to lunch; at 1.35 back at the B.B.C., and a 4.0 there was a party at the home of Miss reeve's manager, Mr. Gordon Harbord, in st. Martin's lane of er which she awaits two theater shows / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4914959: Feb. 06, 1954 - That'll definitely get the ball rolling! These five young German deserters of the French Foreign Legion come fresh from the Indochina warzone to tell us what it's really like. Indeed, the German men have shutter-inducing things to report. This is a very delicate situation for Bonn: how to deal with France's attempts to hush up the such affairs. Although the men certainly had the purpose of informing young Germans of just what went on there, the poor devils were immediately taken into custody by detectives after their flight from Bangkok. Pictured: At their arrival in Hamburg: Horst Pethorius, Erik Bertmeyer, Hugo Schmidt, Erwin Hagemeidl, and Gunther Kleinke / Bridgeman Images
ETE4915764: First World War (1st, Iere, 14-18 or 1914-1918) (The First World War; WWI): Aerodrome de Maulan (France) November 1918: Pilots of the 11th Aero Squadron posing in front of their Dayton-Wright DH-4s.” Mr Jiggs”” famous cartoon character is painted on the fuselage of each aircraft / Bridgeman Images