LAST WAR TO BLAME
SHORTAGE OF FIGHTING MEN GRAVE REPERCUSSIONS EXPEGTED The present European war will have grave repercussions on population, statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, U.-S.A.. said recently, pointing out that the conflict is being waged almost actly a generation after the first World War. The brunt of the present war, the statement said, is being borne by young men in their twenties, whose numbers fall far short of normal because birth rates dropped a generation ago when soldiers of and even younger ages were engaged at the front. "A long war will mean a povertystricken Continent," the statement declared, "with an extremely high proportion of old persons and of women in the prime of life, either widowed or condemned to spinsterhood and childlessness." The statement called attention to . the French census of 1921, which showed that children of the age of four were no more numerous tharj men and women of (55, although normally these children should have outnumbered the elders by two to one.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Issue 2, 8 July 1940, Page 3
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169LAST WAR TO BLAME Bay of Plenty Beacon, Issue 2, 8 July 1940, Page 3
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