HUNGARY'S LOSS
RAPID DIVORCE GROWTH CHILDLESS VILLAGES LONDON* Nov. 15. A violent attack on the ever-growing spirit of luxury and women's pleasurehunting, preventing, thftitn from fulfilling their duties as wives and toother's, was made in the Chamber of Deputies by the ex-Premier, M. Charles Huszar, telegraphs the Budapest correspondent oi the Times. ( tie pointed out that divorces in 1890 in pre-war Hungary, were ,64,000, compared with 300,000 in 1926, although the country now comprised only one-third of its former territory. 1 Birth-control, especially in the provinces, was an appalling evil, ho added. Out. of '2,802,000 families throughout the country, ,442,000 were childless, 314,000 had ono child, i>nd 267,000 had two children, | There were some villages without a single sehoolchild. He appealed for severe measures to save the nation. Count Rethlen, the- Premier, applauded Mussolini's policy oil increasing the Italian population, and promised to deal energetically with the evil, especially birth-control, by so* efiaiiging the system of death duties and wages, and the law of succession that larger families would lie favored.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16506, 25 November 1927, Page 5
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