the outstanding feature of the first business session was the announcement of particulars by representatives of the many nations which had given the political and suffrage eligibility to women between 1913 and 1920—austria, british east africa, canada, crimea, czecho-slovakia, denmark, estonia, germany, great britain, hungary, iceland, lettonia, lithuania, luxembourg, the netherlands, poland, rhodesia, russia, sweden, the ukraine and six more of the united states. it was announced that women sit as members of parliament in the majority of these countries, while large numbers are members of municipal councils. in the united states of america the federal suffrage amendment had passed both houses of congress and had been ratified by thirty-five of the necessary thirty-six states. serbia, belgium and roumania had granted municipal suffrage to women and the zionists of palestine and the commune of fiume had given to them full equal suffrage and eligibility. ... it was decided to arrange at the next congress a session at which only enfranchised women should speak. . . . the catholic woman suffrage society of great britain was accepted as a member of the alliance.