BREEDING MEN FOR WAR.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 42, 5 March 1937, Page 4

BREEDING MEN FOR WAR.

Wken Signor MusBolini set out with poison-gaa on the conquest of Abyasinia one of his chief pretexts was to secure an outlet for Italy's suTplus population. To-day wo have him complaining that Italy's population is dwindling, or at any rata is not growing fast enough. So he is setting about to devise inducements for Italian women to bear more children. It is not very different with his fellow dictator, Herr Hitler, who is loudly demanding the return of German colonies to receive the overflow of pure-bred Aryans and at the same time offering like inducement to produce still more of them. There might, of course, be no very serious objection raieed to these efforts of the now allied Fascist and Nazi rulers to increase the numbers under their control were it not for the fact that they are all avowedly directed to the one purpose. That purpose is the provision of continually inereasing bodies of fighting men with which to achieve their own personal ambitions. Gf that they make no secret, and in each country we find the children all being imbued with the militaristie spirit and from earliest youth being trained to the use of modern warfare's barbaric instruments of destruction. As to how these are to be employed we have had two outrageous examples, first in the conduct of tho Abyssinian campaign and now in the horrors of the Spanish insurrection, which both Mussolini and Hitler have done their best to foment and prolong. How the victims of successful Fascist aggression are to fare we may learn from the now seemingly well authenticated stores of the terrifying savagery that is being practised at Addis Ababa in the name of "civilisation."