BRITISH WOMEN WHO MARRY FOREIGNERS
MAY RETAIN NATIONALITY Miss Ellen Wilkinson (Labour) introduced into the House of Commons recently a Bill to amend the law affecting the status of married women. The Bill provides that a British woman marrying a foreigner shall not lose her’nationality unless she wishes and that a foreign woman marrying a Britisher shall acquire British nationality if she desires. The Bill will be retrospective in the former case, but not in the latter. Miss Wilkinson said women’s organisations in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa favoured the Bill. The Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Kicks, said that at the last Imperial Conference all but one Dominion favoured the proposals. He
hoped that Dominion would soon fall into line. The British Government entirely supported the Bill, whiGh was read a first time.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 620, 23 March 1929, Page 19
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135BRITISH WOMEN WHO MARRY FOREIGNERS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 620, 23 March 1929, Page 19
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