WITHOUT QUANTITY, THERE'S NO QUALITY, OPINES MUSSOLINI
Dace Disappointed at Declining Birth Rate 'FIRST BORN IS ALWAYS WEAKEST’ Times Cables. LONDON, July 24. The Milan correspondent of the Times, says that disappointed because the hirth rate continues to fall in North Italy despite the tax on bachelors and prizes for large families, Signor Benito Mussolini has sent an article to the press opposing the theory that improved quality compensates for diminished quantity. .. Mussolini wants quantity. "Without quantity there is no quality; without number there is no power. Fifty thousand men can equip ten regiments of armoured cars; 100,000 can equip 20 regiments." Mussolini adds: "Babylon, Egypt, Thebes, and ancient Kome fell because the birth rate fell. A reduction in numbers does not mean more vital children, either physically or mentally. The first-born is always the weakest. . "It is also ridiculous to say that machines will over replace men. The population must bo increased for peaco a» well as for war."
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6670, 25 July 1928, Page 7
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160WITHOUT QUANTITY, THERE'S NO QUALITY, OPINES MUSSOLINI Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6670, 25 July 1928, Page 7
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