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WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1933.
BRITISH WIVES OF FOREIGNERS
EFFECT OF GOVERNMENT'S
NEW BILL
“A LITTLE WORSE FOR THEM”
(By Helena Normanton.)
At the private view. at Messra. Agnew's galleries recently, there was a collection of 42 not one of
London, June 30. change of British nationality is to which was priced at over £200, and Startling as it may appear, if occur in just the same circum- most of them considerably under Queen Victoria had still been a stances for a woman as for a man. that figure. Mary Beale's "Port-married woman and not a widow All this might well be compared rait of a Lady," for example, Is in the year 1870, she would have with Article 5 of Ordinance No. priced £85. Mary Beale painted in been changed into a German by 202 of the USSR. 'Code, which the mid-seventeenth century, and virtue of the Naturalisation Act of rune:
is not as well-known as her work that year-unless at
some prior deserves.
date'the Prince Consort had ever Sir Godfrey Kneller's portrait of become formally naturalised. a member of the Burrell family is
catalogued £185. This is light In colour. "The cheap Kuellers are the dark and muddy ones," it is stated.
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In other words, Parliament could
have put us under an alien-albeit British born-Sovereign.
Until 1870 a British-born woman who married a foreigner remained British. The muddled situation created by the Naturalisation Acti
“When a marriage is conclud- ed between a person who is of Union citizenship and a person whole of foreign citizenship, each retains his citizenship.
her own
Change of citizen- ahip of such person СВП take place by means of a simplified form of procedure to be laid down by Union law."
A Veteran Governor Sir Hubert Murray, Lieutenant-}(1870), which abolished the old The whole tendency of modern governor of Papua, whose annual Common Law, on the matter, has law is to treat members of the two report of his administration was created R confusion which bas sexes as juridically equal. Less published recently is 1 gifted gone on increasing ever since.than that cannot work satisfac- writer and anthropologist, with a During the Great War that confu- torily for more than a short space passionate interest in the customs sion deepened into cruel hardship.if, indeed, it has ever worked of his strange territory. This year In this country alone there were well for any. Do British women The describes the witches of the thousands of women married to like to be worse off than those of
d'Entrecasteaux, islands, who are enemy aliens, 7,000 of them being Soviet Russia in this matter? supposed to fly over the sea to Port wives of Germans reșident here. However desirable as the bill Moresby in coconut shella.
"Their distress was severe..
before the Commons may be from houses often wrecked... turned the point of view of the ordinary Into the streets.... found it sensible citizen, it does not repre- impossible to get work.. sent the present policy of his often if sons were serving in the Majesty's Government, which is army they were refused depen-now purporting to give effect to a dents' allowances .... German-Convention signed at The Hague born wives of British subjects on April 12, 1950, signed in order were far better off because the to deal with certain aspects of German Government provided what is known as Conflict of Law. for them".
This is another way of saying they were not allowed to go more than ave that what British men and women- miles from their houses,.. not want is to be sacrificed to a policy allowed to be sent to hospitals of uniformity and alleged interna- near the sea.... not allowed tional legal neatness. to send children to hospitals
Sir Hubert has ruled British New Guinea for over 35 years. longer than any other governor in the Empire. He measures 6ft. 4in... and at 72 still undertakes lohg and arduous, journeys through the in correspondence with the sin-junexplored interior of the islands cerity of the spirit in which the to visit outlying posts. instrument is employed. It re In his earlier days his favorrite cognises quite frankly that an penalty for recalcitrant natives Hong Kong, Wednesday, July 25, 1933- ill-timed insistence upon the was to make them walk beside him theoretic equality of all mem-on his rounds. After a few days bers of the League has often of this strenuous exercise they Ten Years Of Peace. tended to obscure-the truth were reduced to complete submis-
that the peace of Europe really sion. After many vicissitudes, the rests upon the co-operation of Four Power Pact was signed at the Four Great Powers.
The Rome, after the German Govern-chief responsibilty irrevocably ment had notified its acceptance lies upon them. Recently, they
Your Daily Smile
HONESTY.
"! &c.,
was) before a Royal Commission Bome grievances. which sat in 1923,
Women Of No State Admittedly the Lord Chancel- to quote from the evidence of Sir Willoughby Dickson (as he then Status of Aliens Bill would remove lor's British Nationality and
of the final form in which Arti- were visibly threatening to split Mistress: "The main thing here
It would pre- vent what is known as the "atate- cle 3 had passed the close and asunder or combine into new is honesty. The last maid stole Ban On The British Born lessness of certain wives. Some prolonged scrutiny of Paris. blocs. The Pact is designed to the silver spoons,"
not From the outset, however, it was keep them together, so that they New Maid:
The Peace caught out those of countries do "You ain't got
grant their women who may the assent of France to the phra-may in unison exercise a moder-nothin' to fear from me, mum. I'm them who then possessed property nationality to seolgy of the new Pact which was ating influence both upon one an-bound over for a year.”.
leven worke. Any property of marry their citizens, so that if a ¡German-born woman married to a
British woman marries, eg, hardest to secure. Its principles other and upon the other States she cordially accepted, but the of Europe. This Pact opens a Salute.
Briton before February 9, 1920, American or an Albanian, she does American subjects to which they are to be new and broader door to negotia- A famous waxworks has now an was exempt from seizure, but any not thereby become an applied, and the precise method tion, or rather it enlarges all the effigy of Hitler. It may be found property of a British-born woman or Albanian citizen. She does, of their application, occasioned old portals which are to be found necessary to weight the right arma same date was subject to seizure, therefore has no status at all. anxious searchings of heart. M. in the Covenant and in the var- of the neighbouring figures. Deladier and his Government ious Pacts which have succced-
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were generally favourable to thejed thereto. It looks towards an In The Spring. project of Signor Mussolini, but appeasement of Franco-Italian ri-In the spring a housemaid's fancy a powerful section of French valries, and it directly associates
Lightly turns from pots and pan, opinion has tenaciously opposed for the first time the Hitler To the greater necromancy the Pact -on the broad Government with engagements Of a great unmarried man... ground that it involved Revision which bind Germany to the sane-
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of treaties, and that Revision tity of treaties as well as to the The Exception. meant not Peace but War. They propriety of taking measures for Nowadays about the only thing were reinforced by the avowed their reconsideration. Great you can't pay for on the Instalmenti hostility of Poland and the Little Britain has sound reason to be plan is one of the instalments Entente to even. the most dis- gratified with the loyal part her creet allusion to Revision, whe-Government has played in se
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QOUCH!
an
married to a German before the however, cease to be British and
to satisfy the British Government's All kinds of difficulties then con-- financial retaliations against Ger-front her-no State need protect her, no State gives her a passport many. exempt not even property settled
Even settled property was not wherewith to travel.
But whether a British woman with restraint upon "anticipation becomes stateless or 'foreign, in so that the meagre sums and quite time of peace she loses her local large funds so strictly settled and parliamentary votes and in- market were seized by, our Govern- ties, such as less of pensions and might be actuarially worth in the curs several other civic disabili
ment to make Germany (query-certain employments. In time of What Germany?) pay for the war.war and during its after conse- Not even if a son or sons of such quences she incurs more or less propertied women had fought or severe treatment, according to
ther implicit or explicit, and this conding Signor Mussolini's noble For one touch of sunburn makes died on the British side in the war whether her husband is a friendly,
is European security.
Then and Now.
for a time threatened to wreck and successful effort to streng-the whole world skin the scheme. Finally, after re- then the real foundations of peated redrafting, Revision left closely shrouded under re- ferences to Article 19 of the Covenant. But it is there.none the less, and Europe knows it to
London University.
The old-fashioned viri With the corkscrew curi, The new-fashioned girl With the corkscrew.
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Fascination.
were their British-born mothers' neutral, or enemy alien. possessions respected.
(Continued on Page 10)
The civil courts are also closed to allen enemies during the course of hostilities,
Having these hard-teachings be--NUDISTS” SETBACK fore our eyes, one naturally reads the two bills now before the House
The nation that produces more of Lords and House of Commons:
Facts You Did Not Know.
IN, CHICAGO:
City Cannot Afford To Build Stockade.
Not often, even in the history of be there. The original references city so great as London, can to "equality of arms" has under-there be a more important founda gone a like treatment. This is tion-stone than that which the King marriages than any other. no longer directly mentioned, laid for London University's new
respectively to ascertain how far but Article 3 provides that if the home. London University educates
deplorable a status for they go towards terminating so problem is not solved by the Dis third of the full-time university
women; arment Conference, the Four students in England; and if there be
who, after all, are flesh of our flesh Powers will consult together to added those taking evening degree
and bone of our bone...
Chicago, Illinois. find a settlement of what proved courses, or the numerous and im
The shade of a table lamp ip-tains four substantive clauses. "Ahere behind which to go sun bath- The Sardeman-Allen bill con-have a stockade in a public park Ten thousand Nudist fans can't insoluble at Geneva. The Ger portant-diploma courses, into which vented by a German is marked woman who is a British subject man claira to "equality of arme" would obviously have ations branch out, its substantial setting an indicator at a mark her British nationality by reason down the proposal" said the Presi so many of the university institu- with the hours and fractions and shall not lose or be deemed to lose place there. It can scarcely be share in Britain's higher teaching switches on a radio set when the of her marriage with an alien" is dent of the Board of Commissioners, "The chief reason for turning questioned that the cumluative would be seen to be much larger. time is reached. effect of the constant redrafting It has, too, particular and ever-
Its vital clause.
"was the cost of the stockade. It and the intense reluctance in cer-growing importance as a great Im-
It is the vital thing, the very word have to be built of lumber tain quarters to allude frankly to perial centre. But the University rudders of aircraft on the funnels been fighting for years. The prevent persons from Apying" down- By placing fins resembling the marrow of all that women have absolutely free of knot holes and to facts which are ever present has hitherto had no home and no of four new passenger steamships position of those women who have from high apartments nearby, it the minds of all was disappoint worthy visible embodiment. Some New York engineers spoceeded in already lost their nationality by would have had to ing and disconcerting. The Fact of its constituent colleges are more deflecting amoke from the ships alien marriages in safeguarded by an air."--Beuter. was framed by Signor Mussolini fortunate, but the University itself decks.
be a skyline deeming their return to British nationality, unless they them For household use an automatic-selves make a declaration of
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On the other hand, alien women
Treasurer
Beranton, Pennsylvania.
to serve as a Fowerful and ready has lived, so to say, in lodgings. instrument, and was so accepted Now, after more than twenty years with enthusiasm by the British et discussion and the breakdown of ally controlled electric roaster for allenage within a year after the ILLITERATE SCHOOL, DIRECTOR Government. After two months many half-achieved schemes, it is to coffee beans has been invented. of negotiation and adverse cri- obtain what it has so long lacked:
passage of the Act. H ticism, much of it wholly be-On a site behind the British £100,000 and the various Companies in future marrying British, anh Receives G$4,000 Annually As side the mark, it is greatly chang Museum will rise the very large over £70,000. The London County jeets will not thereby automatical ed to the eye. But the Duce building which, before it is finished, Council's grant and promises totally receive the boon of British could still proudly claim that it may cost £3,000,000. Só vast a plan £450,000. There have been fine in-citizenship as they do to-day: the remained faithful in spirit to has only been made possible by adividual contributions-notably the position of those who have already the original scheme. Its pur-confluence of generosities. The £70,000 from Mr. Samuel Courtauld thus obtained it being saltably pose is to secure ten years peace largest gifts are those of the Rocke to house the Institute which he has safeguarded; for Europe, not by imposing the feller Trust, whose help had already endowed. There is still room for fat of "ruling bloc, but by been forthcoming on most muni- individuals to do more and for Sexes Equal Before The Law carefuly negotiated and timely ficent scale for more than one of some years to come the University Married or single women are to cannot read or write and never went removal of the principal causes the consituent Institutions The scheme will furnish a worthy dires be competent, just as a man is, to to school in his life of friction. I will produce City has also come forward hand-tion for the gifts of men of large apply for and to receive certif. A treasurer he receives $4000 results, great of small, precisely somely the Corporation promising means and generous bente
cates of naturalisation. Lase of annually-Beuter.
Director of the Dickson City School A gentleman who has served sa a
Board for 17 years and has been Board treasurer for long time, testified in court recently that he