The Press: Dispatch of the Week

"LONDON, May 8 (U. P.) Certain Americans are 'buying British babies like cloth over the counter,' the Sunday Express said today. 'The reason is that since the War the United States is eager to have British blood to improve her stock,' the newspaper said, quoting the price for babies at from $175 to $350 each. The newspaper gave few details but said wealthy Americans were making the purchases, insisting that the babies come from good families. 'One man offered $3,500 for a really blue-blooded baby,' the story said."

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