DIVORCE BY MUTUAL CONSENT
ADVOCATES AT SEXUAL REFORM LEAGUE CONFERENCE. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) Sun Cable. (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, September 1).
Divorce by mutual consent was the proposal "with which Dr. Ivo Geikie Cobb startled the Sexual Reform League conference. He declared that divorce should be dependent upon the unfettered will of married people, like it was with the old Romans, and the State should respect such dissolutions. Other delegates, including Captain George Pitt Rivers, demanded that married persons be granted freedom. A Russian delegate, Professor Offer-
ski, pointed out that the Soviet marriage laws enabled dissolution of marriage by mutual consent. Marriage, was purely a private affair. There were no illegitimates in Russia.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 September 1929, Page 5
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