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What would you
do if your wife ran away?
HAT would you do if your wife
W
man?
rán
away with another
Divorce her? Thrash him? Or both?
friends, neighbours, and the newspapers are full of such stories, or the results of them.
not arisen.
-by-
EMRYS JONES
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THEY don't get divorced because they can para- phrase the film. "You only live once" to "You only love once," and loving that one. person, though they may never see her, is living for them.
In the film a woman prefers to face death with her pursued hus- band rather than live without him. The Frank Mundays of this world prefer to face life without love.
The story of Frank Mundays gets big headlines because such
No academic question this. It
Only you know what you BY all the laws of naturo stories are rarely heard either in can happen to anybody. IL M
would do, and maybe even you
the instinct is to de- the courts or in the public places; happening to lots of people, don't know if the situation has stroy what angers you, and, not because they are rare, but without sentimentality, there is because men keep their deeds and Now what did Frank Munday only one instinct that transcends more so their thoughts hidden in
that. Love.
the secret places of the heart. do? IT happened to Frank He forgave his wife.
Now evidently Frank Munday Only a court brings Frank Munday.
More than that, he stood £100 had that kind of love, and it is Munday's story out, for such Did you read his story? ball for the man who betrayed not as uncommon an some folk husbands do not wish to appear
He is thirty-three. happily her, paid his fare from Brixton may imagine. My best friend forgiving.
The husband who forgives his married for ten years. Then Prison home, and lent him money had it.
His wife also ran away, and he wife is considered odd, though one day he finds a note on the to get to the court.
The deputy chairman of the anticipated it by placing in her the wife who does so is regard- ¡ mantelpiece, saying his wife has
of the way a sum of money to do with e as noble. In the theatre he left him.
as she wished. She did go away is laughed at, while she is pitied, She returned and was forgiven. and in this the stage reflecte
Then she went away again,
Emily May Munday meets a man at a dance, becomes in-
sessions enlled him il husband."
What do you think?
fatuated with him. She leaves IN France the judges and he tells me he will forgive something of life. her two children, and goes to live
would have called him her again. Why? Because, he NOW the husband who does forgive his wife with a man the deputy chairman that, more likely, if he had shot says, he loves her, and nothing WHERE LIES DANGER? of the sessions calls a thorough and killed the betrayer of his she can do can kill that love. may be considered noble, though in few cases does he consider wife. The "crime of passion" And I believe he means it. blackguard."
and the unwritten law hold good No stupid sentimentalist he, himself so. Mun- there.
but a man with a hard, entirely What prompts that action is 1 hat
In these islands, too, some- masculine brain. In everything not nobility, but love. The plain times.. The Scottish courts re- he does he behaves as rationally fact is that men can love a You cently heard the story of a hus- as the next man.
woman above and beyond any- might take vengeance on her by band accused of murdering a He is more cynical than most thing that the theatre or film telling her you would not divorce man found in his wife's room. about everything, except his own can show.
Lord Aitchison said to the love and marriage. jury: "If you are satisfied that You could thrash the husband found his wife in
course he hates the "Marriage unites two people for "other man," but he life who do not even know onc an- to. Maybe behind the anti-Soviet pacific could ruin him, if the disclosure cumstances that reasonably con- because he places his wife's true as the fact that love can you the act of misconduct, or in cir will do nothing to injure him; other." True enough, but not as “RICORDI” “CARL FISCHER" scheme. The suspicion is not would harm his trade or profes- veyed to his mind that his wife happiness above his own. His unite a man to a woman for life,
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A good number of people | suspect that the three-poweri Now if you were Frank anti-Comintern pact, signed by day and your wife did Germany. Haly and Japan, has what would you do? a further significance than the.
You might divorce her. obvious, Because of the report that German battle craft are steaming to join Italian ships in her. joint manoeuvres, Paris has And him? jumped to the conclusion that him, or try
alliance lies a sceret military
chew on.
I think it was Balzac who said:
shake it.
1 uncommon?
new. The joint manoeuvres
had just committed misconduct life is broken, but the dream and nothing the woman does can only add to it, give the sus You might get
damages or was about to commit miscon- holds firm. picious something tangible to against him in the Divorce duct when discovered, you are She has not asked for a di- Do you think that in all the The decidedly con- Court, and your first instinct per entitled in the circumstances of vorce, and he will not seek one, divorce cases both parties. servative Daily Telegraph in haps would be to do all three, the case to acquit him of mur- because the dream is that one emerge with gladness in their London observes; "This brigaded and nobody would blame you.
der and to find him guilty of day there will be a reconciliation. hearts? hostility towards the Soviet is
culpable homicide."
No one can calculate the terri- For ten years, he says, he easily capable of transformation i
men (und. into forms which would chal-colonial and foreign policy? The law is not just so blind as those ten years he would pay wife can get the freedom she
Then the judge continued: thought she loved him, and for ble sacrifice some
women, too) make so that the lenge much more than Bol- would seem that Germany and it is sometimes thought to be, any price. shevism.. Both Franer and Japan, in return for very wel- and if, in his natural and proper Is his case
wishes, though it condemns him Britain, and the United States come allies against their pos- passion, he took the man's life, doubt it. Who can calculate the to a long and, perhaps, a lust- as well, might be excused for sible enemies, have granted then the law says it is open to a number of men who have a simi- ing unhappiness. not finding minch reassurance Italy some measure of assurance jury to find that he is not guilty lar dream, for the number of in a barrier against Bolshevism against isolation in the event of murder, but of culpable homi- divorces is nothing like as great
SUCH marriages are bet- ter broken, you may which extends from the Baltic of collision with some other cide."
as the number of married folk say, and perhaps that is true, and North Sea, through the power or powers.
More, it is also open to the who are not living together. Mediterranean to the Pacific.
though the cost in broken hopes The farther one thinks along jury to convict of assault where Why don't they get divorced? is terrific, and that men Indeed, France and Britain these lines the clearer comes murder is alleged." might be excused for believing the conviction that while Ger-
In many cases either one party make such sacrifices for the hap- And that's just what the jury or the other refuses to go into piness of faithless wives is cer- their concern for this pact is many and Japan may have had did.
the courts. Other cases, though tainly touching the heights of more direct than the Soviet's." the Russian menace in view The law considers provocation, not many for there is aid for nobility.
Let it be granted that Ger- when they signed their defen- and in this case, the judge says, poor persons, cannot afford it. Why, there are cases within many and Japan have some sive agreement, Italy was "the blow was struck under the Count those out, and there is a human experience of husbands cause to fear the effect of watching Britain and France most terrible provocation to vast army among us living sepa- who have divorced their wives Russian advocacy of world re- out of the corner of an eye. which any man could be subject- rate lives. And among them a and then helped them and their volution, backed by an army It must be remembered that ed."
great number of Frank Mundays. variously estimated at from all three of these powers 3,000,000 to 6,000,000 men, and hungry for colonial empire. including vast mir and me order to obtain the territory chanised forces capable of swift they seek, two at least are movement.across the frontiers. ready to go to war, though Grant, too that there is an admittedly
are In
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can
twROUND THE WORLD
But she
Po-
I
has now become possible to post
a letter to yourself and receive
right round the world by ordinary
Envelopes that had been flown worki were exhibited
to Eight Days
new
Improve, on this time. Using aero- planes, the "round trip" was covered
by two travellers in 1920 in 28 days.
and, still using standard steamships. trals, and air liners, four days were taken off this record in 1930.
Airmen's Efforts
element in Russia which still enemies. Germany wants her preach the doctine of world African colonics revolution accelerated by a Britain and France. buffet from the Red Army, might, particularly with Grant that Russia has worked land's acquiescence, strike east for the undermining of Rightist into Russia for now ground for it a month later after it has travelled From Three Years authority 11 various states, expansion. For if fight she air mail routes. notably Spain, and that this must she would probably choose work continues, official lenials to meet the unknown strength round the from Moscow notwithstanding. of Russia rather than the well- recently at the International Aviation In spite of all this, is there any known power of the British Show, and bore the stamps of four Jules Verne's Fancy In a different category are records genuine reason to fear an Empire and Britain's close ally, different countries, totalling 139.
for flying round the world in a armed invasion by Russia? It France. Japan is similarly Circumnavigating the world in one The coming of railways and steam-single 'plane. The first attempt was would seem most unlikely, par- situated, except that her ambi-way or another has fascinated men ships opened up possibilities.nude in 1922, the proposed route be- !
and may carry her closer to
women since Drake first per-America had been bridged by rail-ing via India, Japan, the Kurile and EURAAVANCEMENTOXINS ticularly in view of the econo- tion
formed the feat.
way, but Jules Verne's "Round the Aleutian Islands, and back to Britain mic condition of the Soviet.collision with Britain. Italy's The excuse for a three-cornered road to colonial empire parallels
When Drake set out in December World in Elghty Days" was a piece through Canada and Greenland,
of fiction and not fact in 1847 when The fight broke down in India, 1577. the world hod alignment of the sort recently those well-kept and hardily de- bech circumnavigated, but Magellan, thought it a little fantastic.
ofrendy It was written, nd muny people and a second attempt to fly round the world in the following year ended ly* accomplished seems singularly fended lanes which link British whose ship returned from the "round amall.
possessions by land and sea. Her trip" in 1822, did not complete the Fifteen years later an American the Kurile Islands after 13,000 miles.
had been covered. journey himself.
writer, Miss Nellie Bly Then there is the matter of course runs close to French Journey
A round-the-world light by nir fearful hardships and a curned fame by beating Jules Verne's was mude in 1024 by a number of Italy's adherence to the Ger- borders. There Is danger there.
100-days eroming of the Pacific time, in fact. Her time was 72 days, Americans in four planes, but the man-Japanese accord. Germany It cannot be said with any Ocean, during which the callers Ind and it is interesting to note that re-time taken was 174 days and we had. and Japan have territory within certainty that the
American anti-Bol to ent rate and leather..Magellan was cently
woman to wait untl 1029 for the record to striking distance of Russia's shovist pact is not precisely killed in the Phillippines and was Journalist traversed the same route, be lowered. In that year the Graf land forces. Italy has not. what is claimed for it. But, thus denied the honour of being the using acroplanes, and leaving herself Zeppelin travelled from Lakehurst to Moreover, there are a number likewise, it cannot be denied first captalu to sail his ship round time for sightseeing in every town. Gerninny and then back to Lake
In 1898, George Gelfth started hurat via Takyo and Los Angeles, of neutral states between Italy that it containe the elements of Only one of the five ships which from Landon and covered Jules 21 days. and Russin which the Soviet an alliance which could chal-set out, returned to as short of the allotted time. In 1903 the record Gatty startled the world by flying
Verne's journey in 10 days less
ຝາຕກ Two years later Wiley Post and days would not willingly offend, Italy lenge, with some hope of win-me taken was
for the "round trip" was brought round it in just under 9 days. Jules is as safe from Soviet attack as ning more than compromise, Drake took three years and four down to 35 days, but only by special Verne's 80 days was beginning 10 England. Safer, in a physical the still only loosely bound de-months for the journey in the Golden facilities in transport.
took
old-fashioned! What, then, brought mocracies. As long as the pact Hind, but not a little of this time was 'The record for circumnavigation by In 1933, Wiley Post alone brought Italy into the three-cornered is purely defensive, however, it spent in plundering Spanish settic-standard means of transport, calling down his own record by a day. fly- chiefly for ingenuity in time-table ing from New York to Berlin, and alliance? A desire for protec-is no real menace to democracy's ments in the New World.
Through the three centuries that guing, was brought down to sixty then back to New York along the tion against 30mu
other security, but rather an influence followed, the time for the "round days by an American who made use northerly roule over Siberia in 18 imagined menace? Anxiety lest for closer co-operation between trip" by boat was slowly reduced: of the Trans-Siberian Railway short-hours over a week.
It in doubtful whether the world' sha be left to face alone the those who would maintain world but at the beginning of the nineteenth ly after it was opened in 1995.
century a year would have been good Without making use of acroplanes will be circumnavigated by a pilot. consequences of an over-vigorous peace.
1lme.
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