DIVORCE IN BRITAIN
BISHOP'S STRICTURES
Rec. 12.20 p.m. LONDON, January 20.' "One of the most sickening features in our long divorce lists is the large proportion pf titled persons, from whom a decent example might be expected but whose names are a disgrace in this miserable catalogue," said Dr. Henry Wilson, Bishop pf Chelmsford, in his "Diocesan Chronicle." The Bishop stated that morals in a sexual sense were becoming worse. "It would probably be regarded as in- i jurious to the war effort if those who knew the facts were to "speak dut pn certain aspects of this matter," he said. "We have really reached a pretty pass when the number of divorce cases is so great that a Judge recommends that Magistrates should deal with, injdte' fended cases." j The Bishop suggested that diyorce ] should pc made more difficult,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1944, Page 5
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