DECREE FOR HUSBAND

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 August 1939, Page 8

DECREE FOR HUSBAND

NAZI WIFE WENT HOME LONDON, June 17. A woman Nazi who left her English husband and went home to Germany was held in the Divorce Court yesterday to have deserted him. Mr. Justice Bucknill granted the husband a decree nisi. The petition was by Mr. William Charles Duckett, a drapery salesman, of Cranleigh-road, Merton Park, S.W. It was not defended. Mr. Duckett and his wife, Elizabeth Marianne, were married at. a Hamburg register office in June, 19.35. They lived at Morden, Surrey. The husband’s case was that after a few weeks Mrs. Duckett, who before the marriage was an active worker for the Nazi party, became homesick and declared that the marriage had keen a complete mistake. In October, 19.35, having been asked by Nazi officials to give evidence in proceedings in Germany, she went to that country and had repeatedly refused to return. Mr. Justice Bucknill said he was satisfied that. Mr. Duckett. had not in any way conducted to the wife’s desertion of him. “She has been away for nearly four years," the judge remarked, “and; it is a hard case for him. It seems to' me to be a. case in which the King’s Proctor might consider whether the period of six months before a decree is made absolute might be reduced.”