TOO MANY PEOPLE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 April 1925, Page 5

TOO MANY PEOPLE.

THEORISTS IN DEBATE

NEW YORK, March 20. The fact that Germany was overpopulated was the primary cause of the Great War is the opinion of Dr. Ferdinand Goldstein, of Berlin, author and historian. In an address before the International British-Control Conference in New York, Dr. Goldstein said the over-popu-lation and need for expansion of Japan and Italy might lead in the same manner to future wars. The result would be that only the proletarian classes would escape the general, slaughter, and world-wide Socialism or Bolshevism would be established. Mr. Harold Cox, editor of the Edinburgh Review', proposed restriction of “man-power disarmament” nr a means of securing world peace. He characterised the ljeague of Nations as a fainwo, and urged the formation of a “league of low birth-rate nations.”—(Reuter.;