A MAID IN MAYFAIR
PRIME MINISTER'S DAUGHTER. DIVORCE IN RUSSIA. (From Our London Lady Correspondent.) There is certainly a fascinating simplicity about marriage and divorce in Russia under the Soviet regime. According to Mr. H. J. Greenwall, whose book " Mirrors of Moscow" is causing a good deal of stir as a close-up impression by an impartial observer, it beats anything even the U.S.A. divorce States have yet perfected. To get married it is necessary only, without witnesses, for the two contracting parties to show their identification papers at the office of the registrar, where, on payment of 60 kopecs, these are marked with a rubber stamp by a lady clerk smoking a cigarette. Divorce is even easier. It can be readily obtained by either party without the knowledge or consent of the other. Thus, a wife returning from a week-end visit home, may be greeted with: "I divorced you last Saturday and married this lady in the afternoon."
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 242, 12 October 1929, Page 4 (Supplement)
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