ABOLITION OF MARRIAGE
PROPOSAL OF THE SOVIET “A MATTER OF CONSENT” TO LEGALISE POLYGAMY By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 16. The Moscow correspondent of the Daily Express says there is every prospect of the proposal to abolish the registration of manages becoming law, but the proposal of the Commissar of Justice precipitated a stormy debate at the session of the Central Executive of Soviet Republics. The strongest opposition came from delegates representing the peasantry, one declaring that it was simply a measure to legalise polygamy. He asked the Government what machinery it was going to establish to decide when conjugal relations had taken place. There were 100,000 unregistered marriages last year. "What about illegitimates?” he asked. A. delegate angrily interjected; "There are no illegitimates. Russia will order children to be protected. Marriage must be merely a matter of consent to the desire of two people, nothing more.” Krylenko, State prosecutor, opposed the laxity of the proposed legislation, urging that in a state of poylgamy woman war invariably the sufferer.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1926, Page 9
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169ABOLITION OF MARRIAGE Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1926, Page 9
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