Mrs Fawcett was at home yesterday afternoon to a large gathering of women journalists and others to meet the directors of the Woman's Leader, the new woman's paper which has succeeded the Common Cause, and the first number of which was published during the afternoon and presented to those present.
There were no speeches, but Mrs. Fawcett, who had met with an accident to her foot and was seated in a low chair, said to her guests that the Woman's Leader would have a larger outlook than would have been possible with a smaller paper such as the Common Cause.
The scope of the paper, which has an excellent, clean "make-up," is to be the woman's leader "in the home, in industry, in politics, in literature and art, in local government, and in the professions."
The first number contains an article on the League of Nations by Lord Robert Cecil, and a comprehensive one on the future of the women's movement by Mrs. Fawcett. The directors of the paper are Mrs. Fawcett, Miss Picton-Turberville, Miss Rathbone, Mrs. Stocks, Mrs. Strachey, Mr. Cross, Miss MacAdam, and Mrs. Jame.
