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SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS, M.P.,
said at Bristol recently that all sorts of excuses were being given why, we should uphold rearmament, including the old-fashioned "For God, King and country" pátriotism, assisted by all the tomfoolery of Jubilees and coronations.
He said James Maxton and Harry Politt ought to be the leaders of the Labour movement to-day. "Another 1014"
By its weakness and blunders the Government is leading us “head-on) into another 1914," said Mr. Gco-"] ffrey Mander (Liberal M.P. for Wolverhampton E.) at Blackpool. Ignoring the League
Mr. Herbert Morrison, M.P., speaking at Gorton (Manchester) Bald Britain ought to have been breathing life and power into the League of Nations, engaging in the positive organisation of the world for peace, but instead the Govern ment had reverted in spirit to the policy that led up to the Great War of 1914, a war that brought nothing but disaster and misery upon the world. The path to pence would not be found in, the nations pling up competitive armaments against each
NEW "EYES" FOR 'R.A.F.
PARACHUTE FLARE TESTS OVER CHANNEL
Experiments with a new form of parachute flare are being made by the Royal Air Force over the sea between Selsey Bill and Benchy Head.
TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1937,
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Mika Winifred Lawson, the famous Gilbert and Sullivan Star, who broadcast from the Studio of ZBW this week. She has just completed a successful tour of Australia.
"Dangerous Omission From Marriage Bill
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that
THE omission from the Mur-for professional advice would be within the conciliation riage Bill of the conciliation brought,
machinery of the police court, and clause would make it a danger- that there the case would begin.
"That would have automatically ous measure, because it would make it possible for poor per-provided conciliation machinery to sons to go direct to the Divorce those who seek divorce, but
clause has disappeared. Parachute flares are intended for Court without being brought night observation and consist of into the conciliation machinery powerful
light, usually of magnesium variety, suspended below of the police courts.
Small parachute. They can be launched through a tube in the floor of the acroplane fuselage, the action of launching also fusing them, so that the parachute breaks out after a brief fall.
a
the
No detalls may be given of the latest types of flare which are now being tested, but they are slated to be a considerable advance on the previous pallern.
An airman with the aid of a pura- chute fare can make observations
So caid Mr. Claud Mullins, the Metropolitan magistrate, speaking at the annual meeting of the South London Association for the Moral Welfare of Children.
"TOO NEW AN IDEA”
"It is too now an idea, and England requires at least five years to absorb
any new idea.
"I am convinced that already
divorce is frequently given to partics who could be reconelled if the "Six years on a London bench," machinery had been available. Per- Mr. Mullins went on and six years laistent cruelty is exactly the come-in- experience of the matrimonial prob- the police court, as in the divorce lems of poorer people, has taught | court,
In the last four, months I me how desperately they need social had_51 summonses for persistent as well as legal help.
cruelly in my list.
•
VALUE OF SOCIAL HELP
over a fairly wide area, the plaremonial court in South London I drifling down wind at wind speed.
The present experiments are being conducted between 7 pm, and mid night, and the flares will be dropped from heights of over 10,000rt. A special notice to airmen has been Issued by the Air Ministry so that clyli aeroplanes may keep clear of the area or realise what is happen-
"In seven months of the ''matri-
Issued 220 summonses to wives, all] for separations. Of those, 108 were never heard at all-we were able to satisfy them through social help.
The serious factor is that, if the Marriage Bill goes through, about one-third of those cases will be able to go direct to the divorce court
When the Bill was originally In Ing if they see the flares in the distroduced it contained a clause under
tance.
which those who cannot afford to pay
"Every one of those, if the Marriage Bins now existing had been law, could have gone siraight to the Divorce Court. "Of the 51, only 22 came before me.
The others were disposed of by voluntary
"In the
Court the only question is whether the case can be proved.. In the police court the fast. thing we ask is whether the case can be proved, and the first thing we ask is whether a separation will improve things. But for the-for-more-im- portant question of divorce no at- tempt is to be made at conciliation."
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