Proposes women occupation army in Egypt

Associated Press · November 12, 1956

Mrs. Caresse Crosby, 64-year-old grandmother, is enthusiastic as she outlines from her home a proposal that an army of women be flown into the Suez Canal zone and Gaza Strip to "Occupy and succor" the areas. She said tonight that she had wired Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, urging him to call for 100,000 volunteers from among women of all nations. "I volunteer," she added. The women would be unarmed, she said, and would work "to help save the world from further bloodshed."