Foreign News: Stiffer Divorces

"The easy, secret Paris divorce" is to be made more difficult, so stated despatches from the French capital.

Long have Parisians been disgruntled at the facility with which rich U. S. citizens have been able to sever their marital relations. They argued that their "divorce mill" "was rapidly assuming the proportions of an international scandal; that the good name of France was being dragged through the mire of disrepute; that the situation was doing considerable harm to France in the U. S. and other foreign countries; that something must be done to end the...

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