Woman's Restraining Hand
PROVOCATIVE JOAD... 1
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I Women and marriage also were rejferred to by Dr C. E. M.. Joad when | speaking at a Schoolboys' Own ExhiI bition at Westminster. 1 ’He said: “One day, when you j grow up, you will meet another kind of creature called women. They are not so mysterious as they were, j “When I was a boy they were so | covered up that I thought all women ! were solid down to the ankles where 1 they branched out into a pair of feet. “You will almost certainly marry
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one of them, and what you will find is that she won’t approve of you being an adventurer, pioneer or experimenter because the income is precarious and she will want to know who is going to look after the feeding of herself and her babies.” On divorce he said: “The cream of absurdity of our divorce laws is that, if both parties want a divorce that is sufficient reason for not granting it.”
Efforts to get round this meant a risk of King’s Proctor inquiries and collusion charges.
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Northern Advocate, 8 January 1947, Page 4
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