THE WHITE NATIONS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1935, Page 22 (Supplement)

THE WHITE NATIONS

WILL THEY HOLD THE WORLD? THREAT TO CIVILISATION. It remains to be seen whether the notions of Europe will agree to live at peace; but one thing grows more urgent while they quarrel. If the white man does not mend his ways he will in each country defeat himself. We have continually to record, as news of the first importance, the falling-off or children, says the Children’s Newspaper. France, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark; all these are not renewing themselves. In each case the children born are not numerous enough to replace their parents. In other European countries, including Spain and Italy, the children are also falling-off in numbers, although the decline is not yet big enough to cause a fall in population, the replacement rates indicating future increases in population. Nevertheless, Mussolini is alarmed at the Italian birthrate decline, although it is so much smaller than ours, and urges his people to save Italy from the fate that threatens so many European countries. A THREAT TO NEW ZEALAND. What of the New World, of North America, of South Africa, of Australia and New Zealand? In all these places children are rapidly declining, as in so many parts of Europe. New Zealand’s birthrate has declined without interruption since 1920. In 1933 there were 24,334 babies born (500 fewer than in 1932), and the. birthrate was about 16 for every 1000 of the population as against 17 during the previous year. This means that New Zealand is not replacing her people, and her smali population is thus threatened with annihilation. She has now only about 1,500,000 people. New Zealand could only take men and women from Britain by draining the Mother Country vf her best blood, young and vigorous people. As with New Zealand, so with Australia, Canada and South Africa. Canada is failing, save in the French region, where big families still appear. This leads Canada to hope for British migrants, but the fact is that Britain could only populate Canada by depopulating its own island still further. South Africa is a most serious case. A handful of‘whites govern a multitude of natives. A South African census commission has forecast that, as things are going, in the absence of white migration. the blacks will outnumber the whites by four to one in 1951. The United States is also doomed to a declining population unless she can gain immigrants. With Europe failing, America cannot hope to make increase in the future save by her own natural increase. The fall in the American Birthrate shows that America is not likely- to renew herself; she, like Britain, must decline in population unless she ean obtain immigrants. At present she does not desire immigration; in the future she may be unable to attract it. Yet the United States is very sparsely populated. Her people amount to only eight families to the square mile! Thus, when we survey the world as wnole, we have the gravest cause for concern; white civilisation cannot endure if white children are not born to succeed to the white inheritance. At present the two thousand million people of the world are only one in three white. If the ratio should become one in five or one in six the white will be conquered, not by a foe but by himself.