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“Playing About” With Soldiers’ Wives (Rec. 7.30 p.m.i BRISBANE. July 22. A suggestion by Mr Justice Brennan, of Bundaberg. this week, that men who '‘played about" with soldiers’ wives should be publicly whipped has been supported by Archbishop Duhig, Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane. Archbishop Duhig added that, if the woman was as much to blame as the man, she should be whipped too. "Soldiers' philandering wives are often as much to blame as their lovers.” The Federal president of the United Council of Ex-servicemen's Associations. Mr A. J. Servin, has suggested that vigilance committees of soldiers be formed to investigate the clandestine love affairs of soldiers’ wives. “Let soldiers go out and catch and punish the werewolves,” Mr Servin said. “Let us expose the men who are preying on soldiers’ wives. Men who betray the wives of soldiers fighting for their country are traitors to the nation.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23260, 23 July 1945, Page 5
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150PUBLIC WHIPPINGS FAVOURED Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23260, 23 July 1945, Page 5
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