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On 8 September 1914, Pankhurst re-appeared at the London Opera House, after her long exile, to utter a declaration not on women's enfranchisement but on " The German Peril ", a campaign led by the former General Secretary of the WSPU, Norah Dacre Fox in conjunction with the British Empire Union and the National Party.

Along with Norah Dacre Fox ( later known as Norah Elam ), Pankhurst toured the country making recruiting speeches.

Her supporters handed the white feather to every young man they encountered wearing civilian dress and bobbed up at Hyde Park meetings with placards: " Intern Them All ".

The Suffragette appeared again on 16 April 1915 as a war paper and on 15 October changed its name to Britannia.

There, week by week, Pankhurst demanded the military conscription of men and the industrial conscription of women into " national service ", as it was termed.

She called also for the internment of all people of enemy race, men and women, young and old, found on these shores, and for a more complete and ruthless enforcement of the blockade of enemy and neutral nations.

She insisted that this must be " a war of attrition ".

She demanded the resignation of Sir Edward Grey, Lord Robert Cecil, General Sir William Robertson and Sir Eyre Crowe, whom she considered too mild and dilatory in method.

Britannia was many times raided by the police and experienced greater difficulty in appearing than had befallen The Suffragette.

Indeed, although occasionally Norah Dacre Fox's father, John Doherty, who owned a printing firm, was drafted in to print campaign posters, Britannia was compelled at last to set up its own printing press.

Emmeline Pankhurst proposed to set up Women's Social and Political Union Homes for illegitimate girl " war babies ", but only five children were adopted.

David Lloyd George, whom Pankhurst had regarded as the most bitter and dangerous enemy of women, was now the one politician in whom she and Emmeline Pankhurst placed confidence.