WAR WIDOWS
A VARIATION IN FRANCE
There is “war” between the war widows of France—the remarried ones and "those are still faithful to the memory of,, their husbands, who died for their >country’s' cause. The i remarried war widows have formed a- federation and protest against the loss of the pensions they drew because their first husband had been killed in action, and of which they are deprived because they liave married again.
The; widows who have not remarried have not grouped themselves into any federation, but they are collectively as well as individually indignant at the attitude of the remarried women.
M. Georges de la Fouc.hardiere, the satirist, writing jin the 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. They have lost a husband, and they have found another.
“They have suffered, grief, without doubt. Their grief is over. They are going dancing. Rut- it is not rather humiliating for the new husband of a war widow to collect quarterly the price of the blood of bis predeceasoi ?
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1933, Page 8
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