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Britain should retaliate now for yesterday's deportations by deporting some more Germans. Then Germany will retalistą again.
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It's
ANTI-POLISH PROPAGANDA
V
A SMELL OF BURNING
The
Sit-By-The-Fires
Who Stay Married
F Britain's divorce rates go on increasing the way they have been for the past sixty years, then by 2086 the majority of marriages will divorce.
HOW TO BE HAPPY
EVEN AFTER
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And if you look at that table again you'll see that the men whose work comes under the top four headings don't stay home much for one reason or another.
Men in the services are always being sent somewhere else, which means being separated a lot from their wives, and absence makes the heart wander.
Secondly, they have plenty of leisure....
Then there's the cost of high living which they have to go in for without having enough money. to pay for it.
The .artistic professions, second on the list, also have their share of money troubles.
But what lands them in the cart more than anything, apart The reason for this little snob- their lives working among from having bad homes and no Sounds unlikely, doesn't it? bery is that on the whole you divorcees are inclined to at children, is self-centredness. So
end
in
It's what Hitler wants, isn't But no one, knowa.any, good rea-find-a-more glamorous—and ad- tribute the rising-figures-to-all-many-of-them-think-they-are-
it?.
105th Time
DOES it surprise you
son why things shouldn't develop venturous crowd of people in the sorts of sinister causes, such as entitled to consider their own that way.
divorce courts than you do en- immorality, crime, insanity, feelings and requirements to IT IS an anti-climax to read that
You can learn a lot about how tered for the Dunmow Flitch. sexual maladjustment.
the exclusion of every one else's. the League Council is assembling how and why people fail. And the aspidistra flying, but nobody who come to the divorce courts to run a marriage from studying It may be praiseworthy to keep But 50 per cent, of the people for its 105th session on May 15.
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THE DEPARTURE from Hong-
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More interesting than most-
cant than might appear at first tables, isn't it? Well, so it
sight:
ought to be. It may hit you in
It is all part of the atendy build the heart.
ing up of Britain's noval strength)
in the Far East. The 10,000-ton cruiser is already on
route to.
ALL the same, for most
people it's still some Hongkong with 8-inch guns and thing to read about in the papers, the Edinburgh carries twelve G- like hunting, shooting, and the inch guns, as compared with the classior kinds of fishing. Avo of the Cardiff, and is consider- ably faster.
The China Squadron has never
They are still rather proud of knowing a divorcee; in the same way that it gives most young men a kick to know an actress,
regained the strength of pre-war however depressingly virtuous
dayn, when Hongkong saw battle- she may be.
shilpa, fa.ite barbour. Britain has
If you live in London the
not had the ships to spare because chances of knowing either pre
of the Washington limitation.
about the same. Eight thou- The East Indies and China Squad- sand af Britain's 35,000 di- rous aro gradually taking shape. vorceds (about 21,000 women, In emergency they would join (2) 14,000. men) live there, and gether to form a fairly powerful about the same number of homogeneous squadron.,
actressos.
are in the United States, where We are losing that art, as they been on the down for years. the sewing machine trade has You find that people who spend
Forty-two per cent. of divorced classes' high position on the You may say that the leisured marriages are childless, 33 per table rather breaks down the cent. have only one child.
home-is-the-secret-qf-successful- marriage theory. They certain- ly have good homes.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
But home doesn't mean
By Lichty thing to the sort of rich people
things we have will fit out this room nicely, except for that
former and I think Grandpa will just fit in there."
who land in the divorce courts. Other people's money and brains furnish it and run it for them. It's a toy, not a home.
It's not much more to them than the room which a commer- cial traveller hires for the night. Plenty of clergymon, doctors, and lawyers would like to get divorced, but it would ruin them, so they carry on just as they are; not married, simply not divorced,
I was talking about this the other day with old Mrs. Tiede- man, who runs the Divorce Law Reform Union from a dingy basement office in Chancery-lane, and she says that a tremendous lot of civil servants want to get divorced, but don't, for the same
reasons.
Woll, of course, everybody wants to get divorced at some time, but if you've got a home and children it's not so easy.
ARE you saying, What
about the woman? What's the use of explaining away divorce in terms of men's jobe, and so ignoring 50 per· cent of the parties? But it's all right.
For that, old- and popular idea that und PLEASE Turn To Paga 5