Foreign News: Life & Death

Britons last week were reading a book called Parents Revolt by a couple named Titmuss. Young Richard Titmuss of the Health Ministry and his wife Kathleen are among the sundry Britons who, amid their war worries, have found time for the fear that the British are a dying race.

For several decades Britain's birth rate has been falling. Among those aroused about it is the University of Edinburgh's Professor F. A. E. Crew. Cried he recently:" A people's birth rate is the measure of their faith in themselves. We must build a social structure...

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