The Archive · 1941

American Wife Not Willing To Return to Bombs

Nazi bombing has put a British matrimonial problem in front of Judge Isidor Wa rT in New York Supreme Court, and the crux Is it a wife's duty to remain on duty with' her husband, even in danger? This news item appeared recently in the "Daily Mail, Mr, F. Hugh Treherne-Thomas, a manager at the Swansea works of Richard Thomas and Ca,, th big steel and tinplates manufacturers, wants hi American wife to return from New York, with their two children, to their home near Swansea, Judge Wasservogel reserved his decision yester~ day on a suit for legal separation brought by Mrs, Treherne-Thomas, The wife claims that her husband's Tetters, accusing her of not doing her duty, are "cruel, inhuman treatment,"

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