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ADVOCATES DIVORCE BY CONSENT HOW RUSSIA DOES IT (United Service) Reed. 9.14 a.m. LONDON, Monday. Divorce by mutual consent was the proposal with which the Rev. Dr. Geikie Cobb, rector of St. Ethelburga the Virgin, Bishopsgate, startled the Sexual Reform League at its conference. He declared that divorce should be dependent upon the unfettered will of married people, like the old Romans, and the State should respect such a dissolution. Other delegates, including Captain George Pitt-Rivers, who was recently divorced by his wife, a daughter of Lord Forster, demanded greater freedom.' Another delegate, Professor Offerski, pointed out that the Soviet marriage laws enabled dissolution of marriage by mutual consent. Marriage was purely a private affair. There were no illegitimates in Russia.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 764, 10 September 1929, Page 9
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124A RECTOR'S STARTLER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 764, 10 September 1929, Page 9
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