Cartoon Summary of the Week's News _By Sudduth AFTERTHOUGHT I ON-NEUTRALITY France Seeks Higher Birth Rate Basques’ Phantom Government Moscow and Berlin Bargaining As Fascist Population Grows Holds Fate of Small Picturesque Spanish Exiles Garry on Fight for Autonomy Nations But Increased Numbers Boost and Have Blair Bolles. Expenses By Deal May Let Russia Grab Baltic States in Proved Hindrance Rather Than Aid Return for Merely in Armed Conflicts Remaining Neutral in Wartime By Guy Irving Burch. By Constantine Brown. Last year France had 35.000 more ous children, train the youth and give deaths than births. At 1938 birth The latest news received in the them economic opportunities in the col- high quar- As was pointed out three months ago, it is ters in the rate estimated that France will onies. France has been giving bonuses Washington confirms reports the Russian dictator was given by Hit- decline in that the population from 42.000.000 to to parents of large families for some time, possibility of the Soviet Un- ler’s representatives authentic proofs ion’s 28.000.000 during the next 50 years. In yet during the past two years there have joining the stop-Hitler bloc should that in December, 1938, and in January now be the meantime, the populations of Ger- been more deaths than births. Twenty discounted. Neither Great Brit- of this year the British urged Hitler to many and Italy are on the increase. years ago, when France began the baby ain nor France can subscribe to Stalin's expand eastward into the Ukraine and Germany added 480.000 to her already bonuses in earnest, she also outlawed terms, which may be summed up as leave France and Britain and their satel- large population (less unnumbered re- birth control information. Neither one follows: In the event of a war against lites alone. and her moves has the Germany, the Soviet must fugee emigrants), Italy swelled of these prevented popu- government Stalin waited patiently until his time 425,000. lation from These and have a free hand in to the Baltic regions by decreasing. regard arrived to pay the British in kind. When These facts have French in states, the fate of which will be deter- aroused the other schemes have been practiced faced with the German menace the Brit- to action. “A and other but the birth mined later, after Germany has been government depopulated Italy countries, ish appealed to Stalin to join the stop- Premier “can- rate has on defeated. country,” says Daladier, kept right dropping. Hitler bloc, and he listened carefully. not be a free It is a route After long and strenuous country. open The simple facts of the matter are pourparlers Then he pulled out of his trick box a to a offered to covetous- the British and the French invasion, prey that all the countries of Europe are feel- governments request for the ultimate reannexation of ness." Hitler and Mussolini are have come to realize that the of doing ing severe population pressure upon their price the Baltic states as a preventive measure in their to increase Russia's co-operation is the loss of inde- everything power standards of living, and parents with against a future German aggression, pos- the birth and it seems Premier pendence for Finand, Latvia, Lithuania rate, any degree of foresight simply will not sibly at the bidding of the British. And and Estonia, all Russian Daladier will throw his temporary “dic- have the large families of earlier days formerly prov- when Molotov added that the status of inces and now tatorial” powers behind such a move- when European countries could export independent nations, ac- the Polish Ukraine and maybe Bessarabia cording to the of self-determi- ment in France. large numbers of emigrants to the New principle might have to enter into the picture after nation on which the 1919 was es- This international cradle race, this World. peace Germany had been defeated, the British for mere numbers at almost tablished. Stalin wants to restore the threw Struggle Spengler, in his exhaustive book up their hands. They might have be as the pre-war boundaries of the old czarist any price, may alarming to ‘‘France Faces estimates continued to discuss the problem with Depopulation,” The student of population as the armament empire. Russian dictator was defi- Stalin's minions but the that France now has 25 per cent more Poles and the race is to the statesman. and nite in his instructions to Foreign Com- Germany than is conducive to the economic Rumanians made it known to Paris and people missar Italy are already at the population "ex- Molotov that the Baltic states London that would welfare of her people, and. he says, the they rather fight to use one of Musso- must accept, whether they want it or ploding” point, evidence indicates that a decrease of 25 Jose Antonio Aguirre, former President the is shown a single-handed against the Germans than of Basque republic, presiding at meeting of former a lini's expressions, and even France leaders at not. "security guarantee” from the have Russian in their per cent would be an advantage to the Basque Barcelona, Spain. _Wide World Photo. troops territories. could the would-be allies, a security guarantee improve economic welfare of economic life of the French He people. For the the reduced her masses if she had as much as 25 present, Spanish Basque through imprisonment, exile | in the Bay of Biscay without ever which would automatically permit Rus- Big Must Swallow Little. further estimates that a sum of feeling money a 11 Rue cent fewer for capitol is modest building at and execution, through death in battle \ sea-sick. The of the freedom sian troops to enter their territory for per people. Were it not to the French principle The second point of contact between large enough prevent pop- Marseilles, in Paris, a 350 miles the fear of the good away and death by air raid. Into the great of the seas was first established b* them the "common cause." increasing populations ulation from decreasing would amount the axis and Moscow is that they both of the totalitarian from the Spanish Basque country, lying industrial center of the Basque region— in a maritime with Edward III Therefore, while "cordial conversa- states, France would to between one-fourth and one-third of treaty believe Europe cannot continue in its at southeastern end of the an not be so keen for this cradle the Bay iron mining and shipbuilding head- of England in 1351." Mr. Steer adds: tions" continue between the diplomats compe- the national income of France. The na- present shape of a few large nations and of The is a Franco of the Western tition. But the leaders see dan- Biscay. Basques’ government quarters—Gen. has brought "democracies" and the military tionai ouuav lor baby bonuses and such "Their provinces are among the richest a number of small independent countries. and the call “full by exiles, who, since they cannot gov- Spaniards from the south, to allay the I representatives of the U. S. S. R. the ger diplomats steam would have to be about 20 times the and are by far the most progressive of Like and no to The fervor for the cause. chances of a common Italy Germany, the Russians ahead" for the birth rate to meet this ern. having lands rule, plot. Basque Basque front among them amount now expended for such Spain. Spain? There are a few things believe in the of purposes. a have been reduced to zero. sake absorption the minor threat to France's national ramifications of their plotting, mys- The Marseilles street is the For the security. The subject ef population is rather capitol rep- patient Basque will not tolerate, and states which are and of it is neces- geographically The student of ask terious. fascinating, enchanting plotting resented in many countries one is the satisfying public opinion population may complicated, but there are one or two informally suggestion that he is Spanish. economically subordinated to the which needs a historian of the Dumas sary that from time to time larger himself is it wise for France to to by diplomats who possess unofficial pass- For him. Iberian is optimistic try simple facts which many over- the safer term: it powers. They don't believe in ethnical people school for its chronicler, halfway reports about the "satisfactory increase her numbers at this time. She spread ports. There are Basque delegations in more the progress" look. First, as mankind's natural power nearly conveys idea of that boundaries, despite the previous declara- around the earth. It reaches right into London and Brussels of the discussions be issued. But the cannot hope to catch up with Germany to increase is far and most South antiquity and Peninsula in tions of Hitler, Mussolini and greater than its power twilight offices of all the father which has a twice her size. Washington. American countries. There is too. foreign interested powers population to increase its food, one, which the Basque finds his source." of the U. S. S. R., Lenin. clothing, housing, The head man at 11 Rue Marseilles is know the truth. Then if France is a war within in New York, in the Hotel Elysee, 68 The never expecting etc., there must be some means of Basques knew feudalism. Russia was popu- Jose Antonio On October 7, the first to deny Lenin’s the next 15 years, what will a Aguirre. East Fifty-fourth street. The main have a Reich Wants Russian good lation control.