War Widows' "War"

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1933, Page 21

War Widows' "War"

There is "war" between the war widows of France—tthe romarried ones and those who are still faithful to the memory of their husbands, who died for their country's cause (statos a correspondent).

Tho remarried war widows have formed a federation and protest against the loss of .tho pensions they drew because their first husbands had been killed in action, and of which they are deprived because they have married again.

The widows who have not remarried have not grouped themselves into any federation, but tfiey aro collectively as well as individually indignant at tho attitude of the remarried women.

M. Georges de la Fouchardiere, the satirist, writing in tho "Oeuvre," says: —""What are the 'rights' which the remarried war widows are so anxious to protect? They have assuredly the right, and in many cases the duty, to marry again. They have the right to amuse themselves and to go banqueting. Thoy have lost a husband, and they havo found another. They have suffered grief, withont doubt. Their grief is over. They are going dancing. But is it not rather humiliating for the new husband of a war widow to collect quarterly tho price of tho blood of Ms predecessor?"