Law: Divorce in England

Last week's issue of TIME told how Senator Capper of Kansas is trying to make divorce more difficult in these States; also how the law-makers of Fiume, Uruguay, Yucatan, are doing their best to make divorce as easy as possible.

Now comes England with a move towards easier divorce. A bill, likely to become law, provides that a wife need no longer prove cruelty and desertion in addition to adultery by the man, as has been required heretofore—although the man needs only to establish infidelity by the woman.

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