POLITICAL AMENITIES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3480, 7 May 1920, Page 5

POLITICAL AMENITIES.

A'IjTAC»K ON LADY ASTOR. PAST INCIDENT RECALLED.

LONDON, May 5.

Mr Bottomley made a sensational revelation in “John Bull,” and exhibited» posters in London, reading, ‘ ‘ Lady Astor ’s Divorce. ’ ’ Mr Bottomley’s article gives details of the proceedings in 1903 in the State of Virginia, which were carried through with great secrecy. The first ground alleged that Robert Gould ’Sha.W’s desertion_and subsequent statutory grdunds were included in the petition. Bottomley points out that in view of this secret divorce Lady Astor is inconsistent in her recent speech in the House of Commonson the Divorce Bill, in which she deprecated easier divorce on the ground that Women in the United States had not gained anything by it. She added: “I think the world is 'too loose altogether. We need tightening up.” Bottomley’s article describes Lady Astor as a hypocrite of the first Water.

(Horatio Bottomley is editor of “John Bull,” and is a bit'tel' political opponent of Lady Astor, the first "woman to be elected to the House of Commons.) '

CHEERED IN THE COMMONS.

LONDON, May 5.

The article added: Though Lady Astor is described as Shaw’s widow in Burke’s Peerage, and “Who "s Who,’? her first husband is still alive in New York. Members of the. House of Commons loudly cheered Lady As=tor on entering the House to-day. Mr Bottomley was sitting :1 few seats away,