The Henson Journals
Thu 11 July 1912
Volume 17, Page 450
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Thursday, July 11th, 1912.
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We attended the Prime Minister's Garden Party in Downing Street. Extraordinary precautions against Suffragettes had been taken, & there were no disturbances. I had some talk with Mrs Lowther, & with Sir R. Wingate, the Sirdar. He said that the building of the Anglican cathedral at Khartoum was politically useful as giving the natives assurance that we intended to stay in the Soudan.
Issues and controversies: female suffrage