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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, Valencia and other great cities have been occupied.
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.
Y
JOUNG men and women, of course, still look yearningly Into each other's 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 "Hay- 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-a 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.
THEY ure faced with the fact that by 1976 the population of Great Britain will-if the birth-rate atops falling and remains at its present level-have sunk from 45 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..
They have precedents to work on.
About the only con- soling feature of the is
The last three months of war have not disgraced the Re-birth-rate problem publicans. But it has convinced that France, Germany, them that their cause, however Italy, and the United bravely upheld, had no chance States are all in the against overwhelming material same boat with us.
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by seeing what Messrs. Mussolini and Hitler have accomplished.
WANTED:
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"And now the Government are going to add this prob lem to all the other problems which they still have left to solve."
Tpapers
HE German news- were first flooded with articles enticing. young women to get married and do their duty.
"The German woman must not only be healthy and strong," ran ono 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 attractiva propositions, too; you could read about "Why Geniuses Always Spring From Large Families," 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-
Germany started her "More, In 1876 (which is a key date hoff Square was rung and lucky testifying USSOLINI, himself Babies-By Order" campaign in this birth-rate business, for mothers could have medals pin-
children, preached the beauties experiences.
decline) there had been 89 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 fares, bureaucra But he chucked that doctrine one of the same reasons that population.
tic appointments for virile. away with his Communism,
When Hitler came into power Italy (and Britain, too) wanted them; to have them ready when there were only 15 babies per fathers were also featured in In 1927 he told Italy that its and if colonisation begins; and thousand in a year-which is this scheme to enrich the nation cradles would have to be filled (unlike Britain) for use in the half a baby more than the pre- with hundreds of thousands of
new-born yells.
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quickly if Italy was going to be- next war to end wars. He cannot but adjudge that to come a really great Power, have arrived now, or to be at 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 newed his assurances that Italy honeymoon and holiday trips to Rome all the way down to pata had "no territorial or political on the heads for little children aims," and desired "no print the hands of Fasciat, digni- vileged economic position" in tarles-and even tho Duce him-
self. Spain.
The Italian auxiliaries can no longer be maintained in war-torn Spain on the plea that France is helping the Republicans.
And what happened?
During the first six months of 1935 there were actually 9,000 fewer babies born than during
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relief at the proclamation ending the war that has lasted almost A 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.
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 is something rather thera whimsical about all the unborn little toddlers cocking a snoot at Mussolini's imperative demands,.
WELL, the birthrate
in Italy continues to fall; let's cross the Alps and ace
Nelthor Britain nor France what Adolph Hitler's baby ex- can allow then to remain. Soporta havo accomplished.
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Lovers were encouraged by (600 mark loans to put their
By Lichty mutual affection to practical
rent, too, or just on authority?”.
purpose, more than 150 million marks being set aside each year for this worthy purpose.
The whole business neemed as fool-proof as the Hindenburg Line.
And what happened?
Marriages (the Germans be- ing 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 docs: not contínuo to increase Ger- many's 66,000,000 will have sunk to well below 50,000,000- by 1976.
Franco has for so long, be moaned its falling birth-rate. that It has become. Europa's: hortid example,
The French de 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 bables por 1,000 of population to 14 since the war. Markmova
But now It's going to be our turn to regiment the nursery,
From the Italian and Gozmian riments there emerges for {(Continued on Page 211).
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