OF WORLDWIDE INTEREST

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 96, 27 April 1929, Page 18

OF WORLDWIDE INTEREST

When Miss Ellen "Wilkinson iiitvoduccd her Bill in the British House of Comomns to amend the manifest injustice to women who many aliens and. who at present are forced to lose their British nationality,. the Home ; Secretary declared that the Government and nine-tenths of the Empire were ' in favour of the Bill, that only one Dominion created any difficulty in the. way of its adoption, and that he, had hopes that the objections of this one Dominion will be overcome before the next Imperial Conference, says "Time and Tide." Next day he had to withdraw his too optimistic blessing, and to explain that the whole question of the nationality of married women is at present" under consideration by a committee of experts and that the Government has reached no decision. It is odd—'and a little difficult to credit—that Sir William's first recollection should have been so much at varianco with the facts. It would be interesting to know what happened behind the scenes between Thursday and Friday. The case for alteration of the present law is overwhelming. The question is to be discussed at the forthcoming conference on the Codification of Internationale Law at The Hague, and it is to be hoped that tho Government will sec their way before that time comes to remedy the injustice of their own law.

A man who fails seldom gets any sympathy from the man. who has never tried. -The reason that some people stay out of debt is because- no one will let them get in it.