From the archive: 1917
Janet Scott continues her series of selections from the archives of the Friend and looks, this month, at January 1917
It was the year of the Russian Revolution; the year the United States entered the war; the year of the advance into Palestine with the surrender of Jerusalem to the Allied forces, and the declaration by the British government of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations; the year of the Irish Convention; and the year the House of Commons adopted a large measure of woman’s suffrage.
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