The Archive · 1937

English Bishop 'on Birth Control

Approval of limited birth control was given here to-day by the Rt. Rev. Dr. B. Barnes, the Bishop of Birminghom, ina sermon at Oxford University.

"Prudent parents," Dr. Barnes said, "should not. bring' children Into the world if they are going to be ill fed and Li housed. Refusal to bear children who may be engulfed ina pitiless war is natural enough, cannot think it is right," Dr. Barnes also said, "to keep alive those individuals whom doctors now are doomed {0 a sub-human existence, It is discreditable to us as a nation thatthe recommendations "of the Brock Commities on. voluntary sterilization have so far been ignored by the Government"—United Press, 'Tue German Post Office announces that Instructions have been given for the design "and issue of special slamp on the occasion of Chancellor Hier's birthday' on April 20. This will bear a picture. of" the Reichs: fuhrer's head "and will be the first stamp to have such,

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