In a country form which the cries of the Suffragettes have passed away, their work done and accepted, only a small infrequent voice over is heard ruing the day that the franchise was slipped into the untrustworthy hands of women. The Nineteenth Amendment sleeps in peace, awoken only occasionally by the clamor of a daring article in its honor appearing in the Sunday supplements of the New York papers. But in Spain it is yet a new and exciting thing. Just a year ago women suffrage was proclaimed, and today its proclaimed are aghast at the results; the hand that fed has been severely lacerated. In the full tide of political and psychological revolution the unqualified suffrage was bestowed by generous radical; in the recent elections to the Cortes a Conservative victory has been achieved through the solid vote of large blocs of the female population. Behind the defeat of the Socialist party appears to lurk the shadow of the Church, disestablished by the Revolution and the enemy of all Spanish Reds; the tactic which they have needed for so long seems to have been placed graciously in their cassocked laps: the opportunity to utilize their hold on the provincial women for political purposes. What may be the Socialists' countermove to this strategem can hardly be predicted. To rescind the suffrage would be awkward; to abide by the electorate's dictums may be disastrous.