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...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 change in the laws is that affecting marriage and the family, which the Legislative Yuan passed last December. Excerpts: "The duty of a wife to obey her husband, provided in the old law, is not recognized by the new. . . . Whereas under...
...last week the new laws had made little mention of divorce. Formerly husbands could declare themselves divorced, as did famed Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kaishek, and marry again without much trouble; dissatisfied wives had to bear their lot. The December enactments of the Yueh Fa gave wives the right to instigate proceedings, but did not specify the proceedings. Last week Dr. Wang's theories on divorce became Chinese statutes...
...insolent, bizarre and colorful phraseology." Today Mr. Chen, who is back in Canton repeating .the revolution of 1926, insolently pictures President Chiang as a would-be Emperor of China on bizarre posters, colorfully calls the ancient walls of President Chiang's capital city "Nanking's Rococo Fa...
...Behind Nanking's rococo façade, which some foreigners have helped to erect, there is working a political system, or rather a family corporation whose idea of running the country is the management and exploitation of China as the property of Chiang Kai-shek and his so-called family...
Last week Fortnum & Mason did what few great London shops have done: opened a store in Manhattan. The building is seven stories of pink brick with a blue-green base. Its façade and ground floor are a copy of the London shop. Walls and counters are of pale waxed pine, lined with long rows of bottles and preserved goods from all over the world, many painted in pastel shades. Smooth salesmen in morning coats and striped trousers greet the visitors. Much has been done to preserve the British tradition. On exhibit at last week's opening...