The Archive · 1932

MARRIED WOMAN'S NATIONALITY

Geneva, Oct, 11.

'The vexed question "of what' a woman's nationality should be on marrying a foreigner has caused trouble between the League of Nations and the women delegates here.

The committee of women's organisations appointed by. the League has recommended that a wife should choose whether to adhere to her own nationality or take her husband's, "but the juridical committee of the League now recommends unconditional ratification of the convention which makes the wife's nationality absolutely de-Pendent upon thet of her husband's.

The main argument of the jur cal committe isthe supreme in.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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