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DOWNING STEET

Mt C. Turned up this morning with his new Cabinet, orgping Thof ME A. would never be such a cad as not To resign after the Tory win at the Municipal Elections. M: A. rudely told him to go away and win at least one Parliamentary by-election, the unreasonable monster

From Lows paid spy

Silly old Austerit

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POLITICAL CRISIS NEW GOVT. SWORN IN OUT (Copyright in all Countries;

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WORLD WAR ON DISEASE

BY KAROL THALER.

(United Press Staff Correspondent)

NEW world war has been declared, but this one is against disease. International action to combat such world-wide scourges ns tubercu losis, malaria and venereal disense was decided upon by the interim committeo of the World Health Organisation (WHOIC) at its fourth session in the United Nations Palace of Nations at Geneva.

Representatives from 15 nations took part. The decisions of the WHOIC. inchided an agree- ment to send small demonstration teams to countries on request to fight tuberculosis by initiating intensive programme of BCG vaccina- tion as a means of prevention.

A long-range anti-tuberculosis programme to be presented to the first World Health Assembly was however, deferred to the fifth WHOIC session.

The WHOIC agreed that the second meet- ing of the expert committee on malaria will be held in Washington in May 1948. The WHOIC report on malaria held out hope that DDT offered a relatively cheap means of obtaining control of this major disease menace.

INFLUENZA CENTRE

THE conference authorised the setting up of an International influenza centre in England to help combat another world-wide, influenza epi- demic such as the one after the first World War. The United States representative offered to make available the National Institute of Henlth in Bethseda (Mary- land) as a region influenza laboratory.

DIVORCE: A burning question

N Prague recently lawyers of all nations talked over 'a burning question that never ceases to burn... the question of divorce laws and their re- form. Its convener is a barris- ter of the Middle Temple, Dr Constantine Colombas.

Can the different nations of the world rench some common agreement on divorce?

There is no conflict of laws more involved than the clash of divorce lawa.

Divorce in the modern world ranges over all the stages be tween virtual prohibition and mutual arrangement the two parties.

between

that never ceases to burn

By GEORGE

mutual agreement of the union

that can be dissolved at will.

Both conceptions of marriage, and all degrees between them, exist in the world of 1947. But no modern State accepts the two together as the Roman Re- public used to do.

It is illegal So divorce is illegal in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Eire, Malta, Brazil and the Argentine.

It is also illegal in several Divorce in the ancient world

provinces, Canadian did just the same. In the Athens of Pericles a husband Quebec, and in Newfoundland.

In rare instances, generally could obtain a divorce whenever

the Vatican can he wished. A wife whenever for nullity, the Hisch Judge (Archon) annul a marriage, but there is thought it right.

no divorce.

In Caesar's time

IN the Rome of Julius Caesar

EDINGER

Regular testing of approved yel low, fever vaccine was approved to be considered by the WHOIC yel- low fever panel, which includes re- presentatives from Canada, Brazil, France, the United States and Russia. It was decided further to set up shortly Shorty expert committees

venereal diseases and for revision of And there is another conflict of Veter

The existing sanitary conventions. Jaws. Samo entries will re-international experts on venereal cognise The divorce laws of

Desertion is a ground of divorce countries. in six States out of every seven, but the

from State perlod varies State. imprisonment (again different lengths of time), in States. drunkenness [ti 38 neglect in 22.

other disenses are in meet before the end of the year to plan a world-wide campaign. In the extreme case of the United to

A new expert committee on Inter for States, for instance, where, for pur-national epidemies control will re- 30 poses of the marriage laws, cach ludy existing international controls and State is a separate country, all ad- to prevent epidemies from spreading mit the divorce laws of each other, around the globe and to cope with the problem of disease control in So people anxious for a divorce connection with modern develop

ments in transportation by land, sen need only cross the State line to a place where divorce is easier-or, in' extreme cases, into Nevada, where

is ensiest of all.

the

Probably the lows of

to tho Scandinavian countries are. contemporary

most logical.

mind,

the

1

Sweden gives a divorce after year's separation by consent, or for six years absence of either party

without news.

The king has a prerogative_right

wanton extravagance.

difficulties,

and air.

Fifteen United Nations member

DIABETES CONSIDERED THE WHOIC secretariat was in- siructed by the conference to study the inadequacy of present and future But other countries make greater insulin supplies for diabetes. The conference also decided to call the attention of the first World Health in special cases to grant a divorce While most European nailons that! Asembly to the problem of al-

Assembly on Arounds that fall nutside the allow divorce because of separation coholism and asked for a study in ordinary framework of the Jow:

Nations consider that the soparation which co-operation with United and pelty notably violence.

crime

even

carries a husband across a frontier agencies, is a stronger ground for divorce

Health Organisation constitu cally the same as in Sweden. In

unless the tion and right non-member countries. Norway, if both parties agree to a

World Health Assembly is to be six months after the 26th tire, the touts et years of separa- husband is still domiciled in Britain. The W

will grant it.

And

has strongly Roman United Nations member country

like countries But the most vexed of all the Catholic

Spain, ratified the constitution. The execu- and Italy which do not tive secretary, Dr Brook Chilsholm, In Soviet Russin the courts questions which the lawyers gather- Portugal will grant a divorce wherevered in Prague were discussing, is the allow any divorce at all on their said he expected 20 countries would

problem of nationality.

own soll logically refuse to recognise ratify the constitution before the.end divorces that are granted abroad. A of the year, enabling the calling of Should a woman lose her nation- divorce valid in Scotland would not the World Health Assembly during ality

if she murries a foreigner? be accepted in Eire. Can she recover it If she is divorced from him, or must_she_still_be_a foreigner if she returns to her own country

In Denmark the position is prac- than any other, a British court willes so far have ratified the

both parties agree to ask for

there were three degrees of one. marriage and three degrees of divorce also.

Marriages by the mystic ceremony of "confarreatio" (the taking before a pontiff of a sacred wedding cake) were indissoluble. But marriages by

confarroatio were rare.

manus,

called

France gives husband or wife 24 divorce for unfaithfulness, cruelty, violence, the imprison ment of one party, or habitual drunkenness.

In Austria "invincible aver sion" is a ground for divorce, but imprisonment is only ground if the sentence is over five years.

In South Africa "desertion" has to be proved "malicious," and where the ground is the imprisonment of one party. it must be a life sentence.

Is it right or just, as was the case in England il a few months ago, that an English-born wife should be classed as an alten while the foreign- wife of An Englishman is born accepted as British?

Divergent views

Government may restore her own.

not grant a divorce

those

the first half of 1948.

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

ways that no

minimum efficiency can

SINCE Saxon days the people tion of effectives, aimed at reducing

of Cheopham Bivney have wastage to brought in the snedge on De- be more than doubled, provided alr schedule is left un- cember 2. Today at dawn. the staggered. By a rigid rationalisa snedge-bringers will assemble in tion of effectives, the units in each More frequent was the civil

N that problem all countries have the old tithebarn. Then, led by schedule can be redistributed from a ceremony, the handling over of

divergent views. Iri Austria the Master-Snedger, they will common pool, to avoid interlocking

uf departmental groups. the wife Lakes her A wife into the possession of her

husband's walk on stilts to the Golt Cross husband, which

nationality, irrevocably. Was

In Bulgaria only as long the the Market Place, singing Mr Mullet on the situation marriage lasts; after avhich tie the eighth-century huck-song.

("RED") MUL- NI LET'S face wore and wearing their gilt card. MR. GODFREY

a mysterious board huts.

sarilo as he settled into his chair at On this question of imprison In Belgium the wife takes her

for him to nationality, but only The oldest woman ment as a plea, New Zealand husband's

In Cheopham the club. We waited makes a

seven-year sentence conditionally, for within the first six Bivney, Mrs Brass (104) will then speak. "Ten years ago," he said "I

months the minimum ground

of marriage she can, by read out the serin-lint after which told you fellows you hadn't finished for

the making necessary declaration four young men will haul the snedge with Gold." "Well?" asked young divorce, Czechoslovakia three, before a Belgian consul, retain her from Cow Down to the crossroads, Troughton. "Well, look at the Stock Sweden only one.

It is a picturesque Belgian citizenship,

A rush for shares. and Exchange today. Professor Towell states in his "East What shares? Gold shares." **B0 France does not accord French Mercian Folk Ceremonies" that it what?" said Brumawell, rother citizenship to the foreign wife of a probably goes back to the days

Muliet set down his vulgarly, Mr

of sherry, and looked his Frenchman unless the laws of her Eggfrith the Bald.

Prodnose: But what is the suedge? nuestioner full in the face. "So Gold" husband's nationality or she makes Myself: That has never been dis he said. "The beginning

and end a written request to become French closed.

Under manus, the husband could divorce his wife when he chose, but the wife could not divorce the husband at all.

Most frequent Was t.ne "union" under which the parties could separate by mutual agreb- ment.

True, that was 2,000 years ago, but all Western law is based on Roman law. And those three degrees of marriage, with their three several concepts, lie at the base of the divorce laws of all the nations in the modern world.

Observe the distinction in the

U.S. has 49 codes THOUGH desertion is a ground for divorce in most countries where divorce is permitted, the period of desertion varies from place to place..

Own

country make her take her

ceremony

BY AN INDUSTRIALIST

A Frenchwoman remains French

her Staggered schedules the whatever

country of husband, but an Italian woman In Holland (the only country

ccases to be Halion when she In marries A where proceedings take place

cannot foreigner and camera) the period is five years, In recover Itali citizenship after Scotland four. in Switzerland three divorce, unless she returns to live in

*Italy.

in German only one.

a

The United Sites of American has different law for --overy State degrees of Roman marriage... in the Union, and a separate one for from the mystically indissoluble Alaska, making 40 divorce codes in confarreatio to the contract by all.

NANCY

The foreign wife of a Greek be- comes Greek, too; the Greek wife of a foreigner ceases to be Greek for ever. But a Turkish woman remains Turkish always.

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THE staggering of schedules affects A World of her own but in diferent ways. To have its both employers and employees,

ROWDY young lady of great full effect on overall personnel out wealth was awakened one mor- maid with the words, put, the staggering must be total, so ning by her that, by balancing man-hours and "This is the twelfth," work-hours, the full potential can be

"The twelfth what? drawled the obtained without disturbing the ratio of effort to result. By a reintegra lady.

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