MORE BABIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 9

MORE BABIES

GERMAN CAMPAIGN

IDEA OF "EXTRA WIVES"

OFFICIAL ADVOCACY

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LONDON, March 7.

The "Daily Herald" asserts that German leaders are unceasingly campaigning for more babies for future cannon fodder and systematically educating the nation to accept the idea of "extra wives." High officials who are continually hinting at the necessity for a new attitude towards unmarried mothers include Dr. Robert Ley, executive head of the political organisation, who demands that the old-fashioned prejudice against illegitimate children should be abandoned and that unmarried mothers must be granted'respect and protection similar to married people which the latest Nazi law translates into. effect by decreeing imprisonment for men responsible for illegitimate children and who refuse aid to expectant mothers, both materially and mentally, enabling them to feel that they are the social equal with wives.

The journal "The Race" is openly advocating the acceptance of the idea that all unmarried- women have the right to have children, adding that many healthy women can never hope to marry owing to there being insufficient men.