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How DARE

lecture

ALWAYS try to respect religious opinion. For 38 years I have given practical proof of my respect for "Christian_marriage."

During the long battle for the Matri- monial Causes Act, 1937, I did all I could to treat Church opinion tenderly; and that is why the Bill became law.

But the latest lecture of the Church Times is the last straw.

That distinguished organ says, August 22:-

(1) "The position which we have taken up is not that of as

Anglo-Catholle minority in the Church. It is the view of the whole Church, apart from o modernist minority which is pre- pared to ignore both the Gospel and the Prayer-book.

(2) "The outery....has shown most clearly the extent to which

public opinion has now aban-

on

Sir Alan (A.P.) Harbert, who successfully chai- longed the old divorce challenges laws, today

the-attacks-on

THE EDEN MARRIAGE

1

us?

hind it some very loose and inconsistent thinking.

Churchmen, properly and temperately, opposed every new ground for divorce proposed in my Bill (und recommended by the royal commission), including Alve years' insanity.

But we also added four naw grounds for "nullity," that is, grounds upon which the courts may declare a lawful marrigge to be null orld vold.

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New York, TOLLYWOOD hearts beat a little faster today — because honey-haired Hedda Hopper la bringing out a book..

For 62-year-old Hedda is one of Hollywood's gossip queens. She earns nearly £80,000 a year (before taxes) for chattering to 40,000,000 radio listeners and readers of her column in more than RO newspapers.

Her subject: The deeds and misdeeds of Hollywood celebrities. She knows them all personally. She has been thoro 80 years. She is the woman the stars dare not offend.

Hedda's book is called "From Under My Hat." Hats are her trademark. She, sponds nearly £1,800 a year on them..

And now from under her hat Hedda Hopper has produced a bookful of stories like these:

they

by A. P. HERBERT

But where is "Our Lord's

Instead, as she was entitled to authority" for this? How dare

has chosen to forbid such loose thinkers lecture the do, she

marry clergyman to docent people of England on lock any of "principle."

divorced person, innocent or guilty. That is her own affair.

not in

Д

Now, Mr Eden was married EL second time

But, "give them an inch and church, but before registrar. The editor of the Church Times they take an ell.” is perhaps too young to PC- member what was the law before 1938.

CLARK GABLE got his start with his big cara pinned to his head with the make-up man's putty.

MAE WEST, interviewed marriage: "Money and success first. I've been en-

on

gaged a few times. Mother Having secured from Parlia- always found fault. She was ment the full freedom, of the right. Churches, they seem to be ex- Mr Eden was the "petitioner" tending their empire over the in his case: and up to 1937 any register offices. I suggest that this No one opposed these proposals clergyman would have

been is going a little too far. In the Commons; and not one bound by law to marry him in bishop said a word about them

in the Lords: There was none

of the usual stuff about "hard cases make bad law." Because it Is called "nullity," not "divorce," all is well.

-I' remember saying to colleague: "I wish

I had put more into the nullity clause There are two archbishops We should have had much less doned the sanctity of marriage and 24 bishops in the House trouble."

means one thing of Lords. Only one voted against who recognise Our Lord's authority. something quite

to

Those who do not.”

It different

to

But if St Mark is to be strictly the Third Reading: two voted for means it. Both archbishops, for interpreted some of the new honourable reasons, which were grounds, at least, are wrong. explained, abstained.

Let me take one example to make the point olear.

I warmly deny both proposi-

On which side was "Our tlons. The Church Times has Lord's authority"?

no

the

after

five

If a man divorces his first wife years "incurable insanity" he would risk the dis- pleasure of the Church Times on

his second marriage.

church.

Conscience

"If I hadn't listened when she said I'd get tired of them, I'd have had to shell out a fortune for divorces." It ts one thing to regret divorce I regret them all. It is

MARLENE DIETRICH quite another to say that good

told Ribbentrop in pre-war and men.

Inwfully women,

out are London: "I don't go married a second time, "living in sin."

When On behalf of with strange men.” multitudes In that position Ribbentrop said surely she VEN if he had been divorces take leave to resent the thought himself on grounds of mis end the language, on whatever

knew him, she replied: conduct, no churchman in holy obscure texts it is thought to be "Only by reputation.". orders. would have been "liable founded. to any sult, penalty or censure" for morrying him in church a second time,

CLARA BOW said: Next Eme a respectable states- "When Gary Cooper puts man who has had an unhappy his 'arms round me I feel horse." But his pic- life seeks comfort. in a second like a intolerable to This position,

marriage, I hope that Portugal ture with Clara made horse- very many clergymen, was Street will keep quiet about "Our riding Cooper a star. changed by

He the Act of 1937. Lord's outhority."

took all his servants for a There was nothing about it in

ride while she swam, wear-

Mr Holford Knight's Bill, which 1, took over; but I added a new clause, drafted by Mr Claud Mullins.

Study

first...ing nothing but a huge

straw hat.

TALLULAH BANK- HEAD turned handsprings

for a bunker friend at his party at the Waldorf after he carelessly promised to

her give

anything she named. She named the price of a passage to Eng-

more right to speak for "public opinion" than it has for The Voice of the Church, then, "the whole Church." Most of is confused and uncertain (what-

ET the Church Times do a us, I am sure, whether we re- ever resolutions may recently cognise

Now, a clergyman may refuse Little thinking and "Our Lord's authority" have secured a majority vote in or not, have the same

of Convocation), not about the But if he "put her away," to marry any person, "Innocent"

study, first: marriage as the editor. Many of "ideal of Christian

but within a year, by way of or "guilty," whose marriage has those who do, disagree about about

Meanwhile admissibility of "nullity," because she was found been dissolved; and he may also

I should be glad the texts and their application, divorce, There 19 nothing to be subject to "recurrent fits refuse permission for such a to hear how they reconelle, the But so, through the ages, have surprising or blame-worthy in of insanity or epilepsy," he marriage to be celebrated in his new nullity grounds I have men- the churchmen,

this, considering the sparse, re- would be free to marry again at church by any other clergyman. toned with St Mark X, mote, and conflicting nature of once, with not a word of reproach This clause was intended lo The charge is not so much What 19 "Our Lord's the evidence avaliable.

from Portugal Street (the Church

relieve the. conscience authority"? Who knows?

of that they interfere with other land. The

Times' address.] But there is more. I hate to

Individual clergymen, and give people's business, but that they royal commission

1912 of

use the word "humbug" In any What is more, the archbishop til concerned their freedom. don't seem to know their own. examined numerous bishops, divines, and scholars, but could controversy; but let me say that could marry him in Westminster Some may wish that the Church

the Voice of the Church has be- Abbey,

had left it at that. find among them no agreement "as to the true construction to be put upon various well-known passages of Scripture dealing. with this subject."

In Hansard...

HAVE before me some faded

Hansards the debates In the House of Lords upon my Bill. which, by permitting divorce for

So A JET-MAN takes

a joy-ride in A TANK

NOW

desertion, got Mr Eden into this TOW I know what I trouble.

would do if I were an The (late) Bishop of Durham Army-minded 18-year-old -the great Dr Hensley Henson-off on National Service. replying to the late Archbishop I would join the Royal of Canterbury, said: "You rely Armoured Corps and be one on St Mark? But what about

by

Group Captain HUGH DUNDAS

swung right or left. A twist of the left hand, and the whole shooling match went up or down. "Target-Sherman tank, 800

yards to the front," barked the tank commander,

hits from the high-velocity, low officer from trajectory 20-pounders.

team.

口 warrant

the famed 7th

(Desert Rat) Division in Ger-

The loader rammed

I twisted left-hand,

And that, by jingo, was thai-

50

far

St Matthew? And since when of the knights in armour have we drawn distinctions be-who bash about in Britain's I began to suspect that I was many. tween the Gospels?

Centurion tanks the hard watching a picked demonstration his shell.

But it was not so, as I twisted right-hand, found the. "I prefer to stand on the hitting, go-anywhere tanks was allowed to find out for my mark, fired, general position of the Church, which are so good that the self.

say that Our Lord's U.S. Is going to spend a lot teaching, 4.3 We have it transmitted to us

of dollars to buy them for in the four canonical Gospels, tenches with the Allies. every adequate reason that the marriage union is dissoluble.

and to

*

no the Sherman was con-

A sergeant-major brought me cerned.. A fluke? Let me tell a pair of overalls; the colonel you that master-gunner Dundas said: "Have a bath; and there did it again, and again--and was, twining my 6ft. 4ins, into once more for good measure, the driving cockpit of the world's best medium tank.

If you want to let off A corporal, looking more con-

gave me

the drill.

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"Wa me on the strongest

fident than I felt, crouched on possible ground when claim steam for a couple of years the armour above and beside me The stabiliser wit that we are entitled' to that our blessed Lord, as under-there is no place like the

#nd stood by the historie Church, did cockpit or the gun-turret of "steering

wheel" Was two rocked and plunged over the $10.50 authorise invertali circuma Centurion for doing it. I devern-one right, one left. The ground that stabilizer kept my

stances the dissolution of the $16.00

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