609R. P. Monkhouse
to Harrod,
2 January 1937
[a]
Monkhouse, the
literary editor of the Evening Standard, would not publish a letter
from Harrod on an article by Dr. Inge, because the policy of the
newspaper was not to host controversies. However, they would accept a
further contribution by Harrod in time.
[1]
- 1. Monkhouse
wrote again on 6 January explaining that the editors of the
Evening Standard were looking forward to a further article by
Harrod on population, to be illustrated with a photograph of him
with a bouncing baby on either knee (in HP IV-C-A/12). Harrod
wrote again to Monkhouse on 13 March, following the publication of
an article by A. Vallance, "Do we need more Babies?" (Evening
Standard, 11 March 1937, p. 7). Monkhouse invited Harrod to write
an article in response (Monkhouse to Harrod, 15 March 1937, in HP
IV-C-C/9). The paper, however, does not seem to have published
further contributions by Harrod on the subject after "We Must Have
Larger Families" (Harrod
1936:10 , essay 11
). The article by W. R. Inge referred to is "Over-Population and
`Race Suicide'", Evening Standard, 30 December 1936, p. 7.
- a. From
the Evening Standard, London#, one page TLS, in HP
IV-C-A/11.
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