Airman Could Not Marry
Vicar Said "I Refuse
- OLD MISS
PEGGY
OF
SEVENTEEN YEARS ASHFORD, MIDDLESEX, DEEKS BEEN
IN THE PARISH REFUSED PERMISSION TO MARRY CHURCH BY THE VICAR, THE REV. ERNEST STREETE BECAUSE SHE HAD NOT BEEN BAPTISED IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
Hor fianco, 21-years-old Aircraftman Alfred Miles, can- They have had not now be married bofore he geos abroad.
to postpone their wedding until he can get 24 hours' leave.
"My mother went to see Mr. Streete," Miss Deeks said, "and he flatly refused to consider marrying us unless I was baptised.
"Alfred is already baptised in the Church of England, and
the vicar offered to baptise me straight away.
"But I felt so insulted that I refused. Now we shall try to be married at some other church, and, if nobody will do that, we shall go to a Register Ofce.
"I felt just as though he had fold me I was not a fit person to be mar- ried in, the Church of England. My family are Baptists, and we are dop tised according to our own rites, but that
not
Mr. enough for Streete."
was
Why He Refused
Mr. Strecio said: "I refuse to marry any couple unless they prove that they have been baptised accord- ing to the rites of the Church,"
The printed form. Issued to intend- ing brides applying at Ashford Vicar- age states:
"No marriage will be solemnised unless both parties are baptised. Marriage in a Register Oflee meets the case of unbaptised persons."
German Navy Plans Base in The Pacific
ROTTERDAM.
THE German Admiralty is preparing plans, in conjunction with Japanese naval officers, to use the Caroline Islands as a base for German raiders in' the Pacific, it is learned from Ber-: lin.
Plans have not yet received the ap- proval of Tokyo, and, in view of the
Thursday,
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In this man's name. Illtier's personal photographer, ho promoted to organise a picture propaganda department for all Nazi Germany.
HOFFMAN Took This
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Three
December 14, 1939.
Plots
ALADDIN
In a Year HOSIERY
CONFIRMATION of reports of an ever-growing spirit of revolt and anti-Nazi unrest in Germany, even among Hitler's trusted Black Guards and Gestapo (secret police), is given by the Swedish Press, which reveals that two plots against Hitler's life were discovered prior-to the recent Munich beer cellar explosion.
At a meeting of the German Supremo Defence Council re- cently, presided over by Field-Marshal Goering, it is stated, the Nazi provincial governors complained of increasing dissatisfac- tion among young Nazis and passive resistance by workers, and they took a serious view of the grow-| The int infiuence of the anti-Hitler Black occurred in January, when 70 arrests first plot against itler Front led by Herr Otto Strasser.
That the Nazi leaders fear a re- were made, according to the Swedish volution is suggested by reports newspapers, Gotebergs Tidningen that several of them, including and Goteborgs Handels-och Sjofart- Illmmler, the Gestapo chief, have stidning, snys Paris Radio. sent their wives abroad.
Universities -by Lord Nuffield
LORD NUFFIELD, who has given £3,911,000 to universities and Oxford colleges, said recently that he would not send a son to a-university-IF he were going to become a production engineer.
Lord Nuffield is the retiring president of the Institution of Production Engineers. At a luncheon of the institution in London he said he could not understand the suggestion that a uni veraity education was necessary to produce those qualifications needed by the Government at the
moment.
TO PUBLIC SCHOOL
"As I see things," he said, "the only way for n production engineer to get his qualifications is through hard experience in business and the shops.
"Much as I think of a university education, I cannot see how that can be obtained in a univer- sity.
"I had no tenching as a production engineer.
The second anti-Hitler plot was discovered at the end of August and among 100 persons who were arrest- ed
Block Hitler's trusted Guards, Brown Shirts and members of the Hitler youth.
were
Many members of the Nazi Storm
have Troops and Gestapo
been charged with treason in recent weeks, it is stated, and a number of mysteri- ous closhes among S.S. men is sald to have led to several murders and sulcides.
The Daily Mail quotes the Rome radio as reporting that Frau Himmler distributed flowers to injured soldiers in Italy.
The secret anti-Nazi German Free- dom Station declares that the wives of several other Nazi leaders inve left Germany:---
Frau von Ribbentrop, wife of the German Foreign Minister, has left for Brazil.
Frau Goering, wife of the Nazi Air Minister and Hitler's successor No. 1, and Frau Goebbels, wife of the Ger man Propaganda Minister, have gone to Switzerland; Baroness Neurath, wife of the Nazi Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, has also left the Reich.
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attitude of Japan to the Russo- | German agreement, the idea may not been administered by Japan under man warships may take advantage would be absolutely essential, receive the welcome which Genanns League mandate. The projected Ger- of their facilities. and their Japanese friends in Berlin man-Japanero understanding does) The islands were used at the out- expect.
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