FORMER DICTATOR

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20890, 23 August 1939, Page 7

FORMER DICTATOR

M. KERENSKY, OF RUSSIA MARRIED TO AUSTRALIAN WOMAN TO MAKE HOME IN PARIS (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) NEW YORK, August 21 The former Russian Socialist Premier and dictator, Alexander Kerensky, aged 58, was married to-day at Martin’s Creek, Pennsylvania, to Lydia Allen Tritton, aged 33, of Brisbane. M. Kerensky received a divorce in Paris on June 29. Mrs Tritton was divorced In London in 1936 from another Russian, whose name was given only as Nayadin. M. Kerensky and his new wife are now motoring in Upper New York State and are coming tu New York city next week to stay with Mr Kenneth Simpson. Republican leader. They will sail for France at th' 1 I*4 •( tag* tember and will make their home in The bride is a student of Russian affairs. She went to Australia last year and returned last week for the wedding. Kerensky arrived on Thursday from France, where he had secured a divorce from his former wife, to whom he hud been married 30 years. A Secret Wedding The wedding to-day was very secret. It was performed by Mr Harry A. Stein, estate agent and Justice of the Peace, who earlier had been commissioned by a third party to secure a licence. He said: A man wearing a monocle and carrying a cane arrived, accompanied by a pretty blonde. 1 waa thunderstruck when I found out who he was. and would not believe it until 1 saw his passport and divorce papers. I married them in my living room. After tlie abdication of the Tsar on March 13, 19 IT. Kerensky became Premier on July 23, but was deposed when the Bolshevist revolution under Lenin and Trotsky broke out on November 7. He had since been a refugee Ui France.