CHINA: Wang on Divorce

Proud is every Chinese citizen that China has large-mouthed, large-spectacled Dr. Wang Chung-hui in the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague.

But China takes even greater pride in what Dr. Wang does with his spare time, of which Hague justices have plenty. For the past two and a half years Dr. Wang, as president of the Judicial Yuan of the Nationalist Government, has been working on an entirely new code of laws for his native land. Bit-by-bit this code, called Yueh Fa, has been enacted by the Nationalist Government. Most notable...

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