PERIL OF SECRET DIVORCE
U.S. JUDGE’S WARNING TO ENGLAND. PARIS. Sept. 7. Judge Joseph Sabatb. of Chicago, who has heard 25.000 divorce eases, stated yesterday that the number of divorces in Switzerland lias doubled since a law against divorce publicity was put into effect three years ago, and lie fears that the same, thing will happen in E'udand “1 am a great- admirer of English law and judges,” Judge Sabath said. “but. I fear that England has made a grave mistake in prohibiting the publication of details of divorce eases. The fear of publicity is a great deterrent to divorce, and it simply encourages iniquity to cover it up.” The judge,who lias been making a study of divorce laws in Central Europe, said that be bad found that the custom of trial marriages was increasing enormously in Germany, and was making a monkery of the sacred bond.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16475, 20 October 1927, Page 12
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147PERIL OF SECRET DIVORCE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16475, 20 October 1927, Page 12
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