Foreign News: For Better, for Worse

"I believe," a young London mother told a meeting of 3,600 other British mothers last week, "that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled priggish. In consequence, people are sometimes afraid to show disapproval of what they know to be wrong . . ."

Alarmed at statistics that showed one divorce for every eight marriages in Britain* last year, the courageous speaker, Britain's Princess Elizabeth, went further; than either royal personages or most 23-year-olds are wont to do in speaking her mind. "We live in an age of growing self-indulgence," she warned her Mothers' Union audience, which included...

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