SENSATION IN BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 67, 20 March 1937, Page 9

SENSATION IN BRITAIN

BEFORE CASE CAME ON

CAUSES FOR INTERVENTION

LONDON, March 18. The news that the King's Proctor was making the application in the Divorce Court was officially published in the Law Courts cause list and caused a sensation throughout the country, but 'newspapers cannot publish before the hearing anything but the bare • announcement. Among the most .common causes for the King's Proctor's intervention are collusion, meaning that the divorce was "arranged" or procured by a bargain (though this does not prevent a fresh suit being brought free from collusion). The machinery of the King's Proctor's department is frequently set in motion by informers. There have been many protests against the activities of his department on the ground that its methods, which, are necessarily secret, are subterranean, - but it has always been defended in Parliament and elsewhere on the ground of public policy. With regard to the present application, the wording should be noted: "An application by the King's Proctor for directions." The nature of the directions sought may be preliminary to intervention or not connected with it or ruling it out. The "Daily Mail's" Vienna correspondent says it is understood that an important dispatch was handed to the Duke of Windsor, presumably relating to the application by the. King's Proctor. A correspondent of a news agency, telegraphing-from Tours, says* that Mrs. Simpson had no statement to make, but the news came to her as • a complete surprise. '