Inter-Marriage Between People Of All Colonies

Northern Advocate, 18 February 1949, Page 4

Inter-Marriage Between People Of All Colonies

FORECAST . . .

■ LONDON. Thu. (11 a.m.).—The state-sponsored National Marriage Guidance Council has forecast that the future will bring widespread and ultimately universal inter-marriage between peoples of all colours.' The council was condemning a sentence of five years’ imprisonment, imposed by an American court on an ex-serviceman with a percentage of negro blood in his veins, who had married a white woman.

The council declared: “Miscegenation, far from being a crime, will help to usher in the true brotherhood of man. “The human race is of one blood — that is not an idealistic concept but a biological reality.” The council, which gives advice to couples all over Britain to save tottering partnerships from divorce courts, said: “Tacit assumptions that the West is more cultured than the East and that the white man is inherently superior to the coloured, may be dying hard, but nevertheless their days are numbered.”

mixed marriages. At present mixed marriages involv- I three specific hazards; (1) Psychological differences of j racial attitude have to be contended j with in a relationship so close as that j of husband and wife; (2) The fact that there is no social: milieu where both partners are equal- 1 ly at home, imposes special tensions upon the home; (3) The likelihood that children will suffer from degree of ostracism. The council advised that “until these 1 strains have been eased, mixed marriages should take place only between those with great resources of character and a strong and clear sense of vocation.”

MIXED MARRIAGES j The council warned that there ! should be a changed attitude towards