DIVORCE LAWS.
PROPOSAL AT CONFERENCE. (United Service.) LONDON, Sept. 9. Divorce by mutual consent was the proposal with which Dr Geike Cobb startled the Sexual Reform League Conference to-day. Dr Cobb declared that divorce should be dependent upon the unfettered will of married people, like the old Romans, and that the State should respect such dissolution. Other delegates, including Captain George Pitt-Rivers —he was recently divorced by his wife, who is a daughter of Lord Forster, formerly GovernorGeneral of Australia demanded greater freedom. The Russian delegate, Professor Offerski, pointed out that the Soviet marriage laws enabled the dissolution of marriage by mutual consent. Alarriage was a purely private affair. There were no illegitimate children in Russia.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 242, 11 September 1929, Page 7
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116DIVORCE LAWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 242, 11 September 1929, Page 7
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