DIVORCE IN BRITAIN.
INTENSE PUBLIC INTEREST. GALLERIES PACKED. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, June 24. Packed benches in the galleries of the House of Lords listened with intense interest to the second reading debate on the Marriage Bill. The Archbishop of Canterbury said the existing law was responsible for many abuses, adultery being treated with shocking levity. He referred to the false evidence in divorce actions and continued: “I am astonished that honourable men could employ devices, only describable as constructive perjury.” It was difficult not 1 6 place wilful desertion in the same category as adultery as a ground for divorce but he could not -support the Inclusion of insanity.
The Bishop of Durham (Dr. Hensley Henson) said the Bill would bring the law of England into deeper and truer harmony with tho law of Christ.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20230, 26 June 1937, Page 7
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