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Sec.: Dulles Given
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Pre-Geneva Talk Conference With Solons
OFFICE PLANNED
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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
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Woman's Death
Believed Caused
By Spoiled Wine
WH1TTIER, Calif. JPy Movie
producer Cecil B. DeMille.'s ,ex:
ecutive - secretary, Mrs. Rose
Jones Finigan, 50, died in her
home Wednesday night after
tasting some old wine that may
have become spoiled, sheriff's
officers reported Thursday.
;In critical condition, also after
drinking some of ; the wine, ; is
Mrs. Dolores Hoy le, 25, wife of
William Hoyle, a publishing com
pany executive. The Hoyles were
.visiting the Finigans. . ,
. Officers said the wine appar
ently had been opened years ago
and recorked.
DeMille said Mrs. Finigan had
been in his employ 25 years and
was "a very fine woman.". Her
husband is Harold F. Finigan,
secretary-treasurer of the Nelson
R. Crow Publications firm.
told the leaders that President Eis
enhower is "vitally concerned and
keenly alert to the whole situa
tion.". - . -, - - - f
For himself, George said he was
very hopeful the Geneva confer
ence would produce some good re
sults adding: ' -i
"The greatest opportunity of the
century to-do something for-the
stability of the world is at hand
if we will grasp it." ' ' -.- .
Dulles reported ; first to' the na
tional security council, presumably
on his meeting with President Eis
enhower iir Denver 'Wednesday on
the Geneva agenda. He interrupted
this presentation to keep his en
gagement with the legislator at the
state department, then returned to
the' White House for an afternoon
council session to. complete it. .
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