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Show BIRTH BOASTED il LADY EM Candidate for Commons Isi Proud of America, She Tells Womtn. PLYMOUTH, Thursday, Nov. (By the Associated Press.) "Do not think for one minute f am ashamed of my Virginian Vir-ginian blood," snapped Lady Aetor this afternoon at a women's meeting when she was asked why she was not spending her energies in America, where there were as many social evils as here. "What do you want me to do? Sit at home and hold my hards?" Lady Aslor went on. "I married In England, my interests in-terests for ten years have been in Plymouth, Plym-outh, every drop of blood in my veins is Anglo-Saxon, and i am proud of my American birth." Lady Astor's eyes flashed and she gestured ges-tured for a moment. Resuming her speech, she declared women would be the ones to bring about the working of the league of nations. "Men tell you they had good times at the front." Lady Astor asserted, "but t do not believe a mother with a son there ever had a good time." "Men have physical courage." she added, "but they often lack moral courage, cour-age, and that's the kind of courage most needed today." Answering another bombardment of questions, Lady Astor said: "There are two sections of the Labor party one embraces tried and true trade unions, the other young intellectuals, t know the latter as redhot Bolshevik cranks. Half of them never fought in the war, and most of them have never-been never-been w'orkingmeu. They are heart and soul Of the independent labor party." The official nomination of the candidate's for the house of commons in the bye-election bye-election for a successor to Viscount Astor, As-tor, who lost his seat when it elevated him to the peerage on the death of his father, were filed today. The nominees, as previously known unofficially, are Lady Astor, the American wife of the viscount, whose lively campaign for her husband's place In the commons has been under way fur several days, nominated by the Unionists; Isaac Foot, named by the Liberals, and W. T. Gay by the Labor party. |