Books: Human Over-Production

DANGER SPOTS IN WORLD POPULATION— Warren S. Thompson—Knopf ($3.50).

The children of today may grow up to witness the magnificent spectacle of a metropolis uprooted overnight with all its residents mad, dead or chemically diseased by next morning. This will be the next World War. How, when, why will it start?

To make war, declares Author Thompson, people are needed. The more people, the more friction. There are 1,792,000,000 people in the world. Chinese and Russians are 18% each; European Russians, 8%; U. S. citizens, 5%; Germans, 4%; Japanese and British, 3% each; French,...

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