BATTLE OF WAR WIDOWS

Dunstan Times, 13 March 1933, Page 3

BATTLE OF WAR WIDOWS

TROUBLE IN FRANCE There is “war" between the warwidows of France —the remarried ones and those who are still faithful to the memory of their husbands, who died for tlioir country’s cause. The remarried war widows have formed a federation and protest against the loss of the pensions they drew because their first husbands had been killed in action, and of which they are deprived because they have married again. The widows who have not remarried have not grouped themselves into any federation, but they are collectively as well as individually indignant at the attitude of the remarried women. IVi. George dc la Fouchardiere, the satirist, writing in the ‘Oeuvre,’ says: “ What arc the ‘ rights ’ which the remarried war widows are so anxious to protect? They have assuredly the right, and iu many eases the duty, to marry again. They have the right to amuse themselves and to go banqueting. They have lost a husband, and they have found another. “ They have suffered grief, without doubt. Their grief is over. ITicy arc going dancing. But is it not rather humiliating for the new husband of a war widow to collect quarterly the price of the blood of his predecessor?”