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Show Lady Astor Not Ashamed of Her American Birth. PLYMOUTH, Thursday, Nov 6 -i (By The Associated Press ) "Do not 'think for' one minute I am ashamed of my Virginian blood.'' snapped Lad Astor this afternoon at a women's meeting when she was asked why she was not spending her energies in America, where there were as manv social evils as here. "What do you want me to do'' Sit at home and hold my hands?" Lady Astor 'went on "1 married in England, my interests for ten years have been in Plymouth, 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 for a moment Resuming her speech, she declared women would be the ones to bring about the working of l ho league of nations. Men tell you they had good times at the front,' Lady Astor asserted, ; "but 1 do not believe a mother with a; son there ever had a good lime." "Men have physical courage," she added, "but they often lack moral courage and that's the kind of courage uiosi needed today." Uiswering mo her bombarment of questions. Lady A3tor said: "There are two sections of the Labor, party one embraces tried und true, Made unions, the other, young Intel It i tuals I know the latter as red hot! Bolshevik cranks Half of them DOVer fought in the war and most of them have nevei been working men They are the heart and soul of the independent independ-ent Labor party." oo |