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How Harold Denny could keep sending reams of this off to Manhattan day after day, using only the ordinary means of communication open to any Moscow correspondent, was itself a commentary upon the difference between conditions in Russia when the State was not honeycombed with uncertainty and today.
As a postscript to his series, Harold Denny came through with some official statistics showing that in the past five months the Soviet birth rate has doubled. This major phenomenon is due, of course, to Dictator Stalin's having suddenly last year made abortion no longer legal in the Soviet Union (TIME, July 6, 1935). Communist sex morals had been so loosened by nearly two decades of abortions in State clinics that millions of Russian females have continued promiscuous relations and, without abortions, the increase in births has shot up so sharply that Moscow, with 2,000 maternity beds last year, has had to be swiftly equipped with 2,000 more.