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, . 11-Sc ih-iltfuntn, UWm, Oregon, Fridey, Oct. 21, 1955 Sec.: Dulles Given Bipartisan Support at Pre-Geneva Talk Conference With Solons OFFICE PLANNED -NEW? YORK .Url . Th ! United Lutheran Church in America has announced plans ; for -a -$400,000 five-story office .-.addition - j to .? its headquarters -i& the r 103-year-old Brownstone mansion ' of the : late J.-Pr Morgan,-,-; . - j Greece Launches Fund Drive for 'Union of Cyprus ATHENS,-Greece A day long toUection of funds for Cyprus throughout , Greece, was launched Thursday by the pan-hellenfc com mittee for union with Cyprus. -The committee, presided over .by I darity between free Greeks and Athens'' Greek Orthodox Archbist their enslaved Cypriot brethren. t 1 -j . ' i Greeks contend Britain should per op. SpypQQO, waia every drachma mjj her, -crown colony of Cypru contrfouted.wM .".strengthen soli- to unite with. Greece,-- , - By D. HAROLD OLIVER I WASHINGTON to - Secretary of State Dulles won bipartisan -backing in -his plans for the Ge neva Big Four foreign ministers - conference Thursday at a meeting with" congressional leaders. ' Dulles is leaving Friday for the conference with . the foreign min isters of Run i.a, Britain - and France opening Oct. 27,at which ways will be sought to ease east west tensions, in line .with prin- Divorce Laws s . Troubled B By GEORGE W. CORNELL NEW YORK UH The relation ship of a man and a woman is again today stirring the atmo .; sphere of the Church of England. It's an. ageless story, and even . though unique in details, pulsing with the counterpoint of history. There could be a chance for Princess Margaret to marry a di vorced man. Peter Townsend. with 't church approval, if it weren't for certain technical circumstances. But the "if s" make all the dif ference. " , Perhaps no other church is so . rigid , in its rule against remar riage of divorced persons w h i 1 e their former mates are still living. No exception is officially author ized even though grounds existed but weren't used at the time to get the past match nullified by the church itself, i , , "The ban is total and unambigu ous." said the Rev. Dr. J.V. Lang mead Casserley, a British author ity on church canon law and tra- " ditions now in New York. "It is probably true that the Church of England is more strict on this point than any' other part . of Christendom. ' Under the spiritual headship of the present archbishop of Canter bury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, it has held even more firmly to the prin ciple. Rigorous Rale "More so than any recent arch . bishop, he has been particularly insistent on a rigorous rule in re gard to marriages," Dr. Casserley said. . . "He -would be the last man to make any exception. He would have to eat bis own words to do it" Princess Margaret is devout in her religious practices, and a good friend of the archbishop's. The prohibition doesn't mean that a divorced person can't stay in good graces of the church. The church simply considers him liv ing apart from bis spouse. He can't remarry in the church. . In, fact, one . British sovereign. King 4 George IV, ' in the early 1800's, did divorce his wife, and as king' served as temporal head of . the church. Wife' Made Fui Even at his coronation, his dis carded wife made. a big fuss try ing to force, her way past , the guards and demanding that she be crowned queen. She wasn't." ?It was - an - awfully unseemly serley, who at present is serving as a professor of dogmatic the ology at the Episcopal General Theological Seminary here. The royal problem most closely corresponding to that of Princess -Margaret, 25. and Royal Air Force Capt. Townsend. 40, was -the one faced by King Edward VIII. . He gave up the throne in 1936 and became the roving Duke of Windsor in order to marry an . American : divorcee, Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. , Duties Areat Great For Princess Margaret, however, the demands of duty . aren't so .great, even though her -marriage outside the church would, in ef fect deprive her of rights of sue 'cession to the throne. - The reason for this is that' the sovereign is nominal head of the church, with the title of "defend er of the faith." '. "Princess Margaret couldn't for mally consent to a. marriage that is contrary to the laws of the church which she would have to swear in her oath of office to de- fend," Dr Casserley said. As a result, he said, if she did . "marry Townsend, Parliament would be -almost 'certain to pass an act debarring her from succes sion. But in concrete terms, this wouldn't mean much. " ' Margaret probably never would '- become queen, no matter what she does about Townsend. She stands "third in line lo .the throne", behind the two children of -her , sister. Queen Elizabeth. ..; May Relax Rale' Is there any possibility, or prece dent, for some -relaxing of .the in flexible church rule about remar riages? , - " Yes. there is. - Divorced persons with ex-partners still alive have been married in the church. But the . cases require special "conditions, along with rebel-minded -; bishops , to perform . the cere monies. "Such marriages" were fairly common in - certain churches in London 25 years ago," Dr. Casser ley said. Clergymen simply took the law into their wn hands and disobeyed the canon. "But this sort of .thing has al- "9 Roy airy n most died out..' With' the rise" "of di-' vorce, and the church's obligation to preserve the indissolubility of marriage, the bishops today are much more emphatic in adhering to the church laws." When a 'church-performed re marriage does occur, it is after a bishop concludes that even though the previous - union was dissolved by. civil divorce, a basis existed whereby it could have been -nullified by the church.;, r Law Provided The church laws make bo pro vision for this kind of interpreta tion, although there is . a contro- t versial movement afoot in the j church to incorporate ft in the canons. , - ; But even without it, some bish ops have gone j ahead . and per formed such marriages. ' Barring the - "if s."- this course theoretically could be followed by Margaret and Peter. "But it would be very difficult to apply in this case," Dr. Casser ley said. "I doubt strongly that they could find a bishop who would do it, even if the reasons existed, and. I doubt that they do." Grants Annulments The. church grants annulments only on such grounds as the mar riage not being consummated; of "defective intention" such as- a re fusal or agreement against bear ing children; or if coercion or de ception was used in the marriage: All the indications are that Town send's marital breakup couldn't have been based on any of these factors. Divorced in 1932, he had been married more than a decade, even though separated from hi; wife for several of the years.' - They had two children, " Giles, now 13, and Hugo, 9. He obtained the divorce, on grounds of his wife's adultery with another man. whom she later married. Town send received custody of the chil dren. No Distinction "The church makes no distinc tion as to the guilty . or innocent party in a divorce," Dr. Casserley noted. : Even England's divorce laws are generally stricter than in America. Such things as mental or physical cruelty alone aren't sufficient grounds, "Adultery or three years of desertion are the main bases. Although a common assumption is that the Church of England descended directly, from King Hen ry VIII's break with the Roman Catholic pope in 1534 over Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon, this , is only partly true. Brke With Rme Much-married Henry did break with Kome, in a dispute boiling to a head over his divorce from the Spanish king's niece. But after his hectic career in which he behead ed two wives and married six. the Roman Catholic Church was re stored under Queen Mary, Cath erine's daughter. Actually, the unbroken line of the Church of England dates only from her successor. Queen Elizabeth, who re-established it separate from Rome in the midst of a cold war with Spain and the Spanish-born pope. ; ciples laid down at the Geneva summit conference last July. Chairman George (D-Ga of the senate foreign, relations committee told reporters after a two-hour meeting with Dulles at the state department that none of the Re publicans sand Democrats present had expressed - any disagreement with the.' secretary's plans. . . '' Others 'agreed with George and said the -. program laid dawn was such that the entire congress could support it. u - ".. ' George" told a news conference that Dulles had assured the con gressional leaders he would keep in touch with them on any news developments that arise at the con ference. ' - i The Georgia senator said Dulles 1 Serve the famous noodle " that won't slide off tfo'forkll Easy to "i prepare economical;,. nourishing! AT YOUR Cft0CRS iC . - -,Alf I'li wat sttvt him H ' WS B!U;Fototo Chip$ . . H t Woman's Death Believed Caused By Spoiled Wine WH1TTIER, Calif. JPy Movie producer Cecil B. 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