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Spain's Last Phase THE LAST mighty act of the

Spanish drama is over.

The curtain falls on Republican Spain. Almost without the fir ing of a shot Madrid, Valencin und other great cities have been occupied.

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the Cradle Rules the World

But what if the Cradle is Empty?

Britain's cradles have been getting more and more empty for the past 60 years. And no one is able to give a satis- factory explanation for this fact or devise a practical solution,

YOUNG men and women, of course,

yearningly into each eyes, hold hands, fall in love, get married-but the cradle industry continues to sink deeper and deeper into its slump.

Families of one or two children are the aver-" age, and the normal seven or eight of Victorian days is looked upon as unusual.

Yet all the time the business of being a mother is being made both safer and easier for women, and a thousand times less painful than a century ago, when the patriotic mammas of Britain were automatically replacing the popula tion every year.

When I think of the beautiful and childless young wife who told me the other day that "Hav» ing a baby is such a bore!" I am apt to blame her attitude.

But the real blame belongs to a mysterious biological phenomenon which has swept across Europe (carefully avoiding Russia) like a Pied Piper with all the storks behind him-n pheno- menon only partially connected with what is euphemistically called Birth Con trol, but is more accurately prevention.

Now Britain is going to add this problem to all the other problems which it still has left to solve.

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THEY are faced with the fact that by 1976 the population of Great Britain will-if the birth-rate stops falling and remains at its present level-have sunk from 35 millions to 33 millions.

"A very good thing too," said a man looking over my shoulder as I wrote the above paragraph. "We're over-populated, and that's why we've got so many unemployed."

Unfortunately it doesn't work out that way at all. I can give you a lot of, figures to prove this somewhat obvious

fact, but they are rather boring, and what I really want to write about is the way the Govern- ment intend to fill the cradles of the nation.

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to work on.

About the only. con- soling feature of the Re-birth-rate problem is that France, Germany, Italy, and the United States are all in the same boat with us.

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To-day, General Franco is Spain's master. He alone can Spare Spain further agony-the agony of reprisals.

It is General Franco, too, who can lay to rest the uneasiness that is still felt in Europe

his regarding

Knows that one of the essential preliminaries to confidence is to send his foreign supporters out of the country.

Italy and Germany- being what they are- have attempted several ingenious ways of dictat- ing to nature.

and

Hitler

WANTED:

A Hundred

Thousand Mothers

"And now the Government are going to add this prob lem to all the other problems which they still have left to solve."

HE German news-

TH

papers were first flooded with articles enticing young women tu get married and do their duty.

"The German woman must not only be healthy and strong." ran one article, "but must be willing to give her life for the Fatherland on the bed of child- birth just as our soldiers do on the battlefield."

There were more attractive propositions, too; you could read about "Why Geniuses Always Spring From Large Familles," -and--articles... on—“Why_The Happiest Mothers Are Those with BIG Families."

Every time a baby was born in Berlin the bell in the Doen-

Whether you can bul- ly-the-stork-into-getting- back to its work is a question best answered by seeing what Messrs. He Mussolini country.

have accomplished.

Germany started her "More, In 1876 (which is a key date hoff Square was rung and lucky AUSSOLINI, himself Babies-By Order" campaign in this birth-rate business, for mothers could have medals pin-. Mthe father breasts, testifying children, prenched the beautics experiences.

decline) there had been 39 chil- to their loyalty to the Fuehrer of birth control as a young man.

She wanted more children for dren born for every 1,000 of the and the Reich. Tax reductions, lower railway tares, bureaucra But he chucked that doctrine one of the same reasons that population, [away with his Communism. Italy (and Britain, too) wanted When Hitler came into power

appointments for In 1927 he told Italy that its and if colonisation begins; and thousand in a year which is this scheme to enrich the nation them; to have them ready when there were only 15 babies per fathers were also featured in cradles would have to be filled (unlike Britain) for use in the half a baby more than the pre- with hundreds of thousands of and filled a good deal more next war to end wars.

new-born yells. quickly if Italy was going to be come a really great Power.

He "intimated to the British Government that he will request the withdrawal of all foreign volunteers....immediately after

the war has passed its decisive

phase."

He cannot but adjudge that to have arrived now, or to be ut hand.

Upon which, bachelors were immediately penalised in blunt There is no reason for doubt-fashion; their income tax was ing that Italy, General Franco's doubled and the money thus chief backer, will be unwilling obtained was distributed to de for her legionaries to return serving mothers. home.

A sort of Santa Claus at- When Mr. Chamberlain was mosphere pervaded the whole in Rome, Signor Mussolini re-marriage association, from the nowed his assurances that Italy honeymoon and holiday trips to

Rome all the way down to pats. had "no territorial or political

on the heads for little children aims," and desired "no print the hands of Fascist digni- vileged economic position" in taries--and even the Duce him- Spain.

self.

The Italian auxiliaries con 110 longer be maintained in war-torn Spain on the plea that France in helping the Republicans.

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relief at the proclamation ending the war that has lasted almost In thousand days.

But it will feel far greater relief when it knows that Italy's troops have returned to their own country, and Spain is again her own master.

So long as the Italians now remain there will be danger to the peace of western Europe.

And what happened?” ̃^-

1935 there were actually 9,000 During the first six months of

fewer babies. born than during

the provious six months!

Puzzle it out for yourself, for you are as likely to be as right as the leading economists and biological experts.

But I confess to thinking that something, rather there is whimsical about all the unborn little toddlers cocking a snoot at Mussolini's imperative demands.

XX7ELL, the birthrate

Win Italy continues to

fali; let's cross the Alps' and see Neither Britain nor France what Adolph Hitler's baby'¦ ex-·

perts have accomplished,

can allow them to remain.

sent, rate in Britain.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

TODAY HORICE B TRIPE

"CHILD PSYCHOLOG

Bikm

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Lovers were encouraged by (600 mark loans to put their

By Lichty mutual affection to practical

Tickthey 3-10

"Are you a parent, too, or just an authority?":

purpose, more than 160 million marks being set aside each year for this worthy purpose.

The whole business seemed as fool-proof as the Hindenburg Line.

And what happened? Marriages (the Germans be- jing an obedient race) leaped up 200,000 in two years; births in- creased by 180,000 in the same period. But the balance is not adjusted, and if the rate does not continue to increase Ger many's 66,000,000 will have Isunk to well below 50,000,000 jby 1976.

France has for so long be- moaned its falling birth-rato that it has become Europe's. horrid example.

The French do not take kind- ly to belabouring propaganda, but they might be encouraged to know that their rate is not falling off half as rapidly as our own in this country, where we have dropped from 22 babies per 1,000 of population to 14 since the war.

But now it's going to be our turn to regiment the nursery.

From the Italian and 'German experiments there emerges for

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