MARRIAGE IN RUSSIA
PROPOSAL TO ABOLISH REGISTRATION
STRONG OPPOSITION
tßy Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright) (Auatrallan * N.Z. Cable Association
(Received 17th Nov., 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, l’6th Nov. The “Daily Express” Moscow correspondent says that there is every prospect of the proposal to abolish registration of marriages becoming law, but the proposal of the Commissar of Justice precipitated a stormy debate at a session of the central executive of the Soviet republics. Strongest opposition came from delegates representing the peasantry, one declaring that it was simply a measure to legalise polygamy. He asked tlie Government what, machinery it was going to establish to decide when conjugal relations had taken place. There were 100,000 unregistered marriages last year. What about illegitimates? A delegate angrily interjected: ' There will be no illegitimates. Russia will order the children to be protected. Marriage must be merely a matter of the consent and desire of two ..peoplenothing more.” Krylenko, State Prosecutor, opposed t-he_ laxity of the proposed legislation, urging that in a state of polygamy The woman was invariably the sufferer.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 17 November 1926, Page 5
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