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He has done this, and this is an historic act for the President because here to fore every President avoided any statement on birth control or population problems like the plague.

Mrs. Lasker, do you think that this manner of approach to the subject, the population buildup and so forth, and the dangers inherent in it, is ultimately going to overwhelm the attitude of the Roman Catholic Church.

I think it is, yes. I think that practical politics and economics are going to overwhelm the priests.

They've taken it away from anything that is personal in the discussion and have taked about how much it was needed to raise the income in India, for instance, and this made people free to discuss the subject in a way that they never had before.

This may be unfair to bring in, but you've very often talked about the will of God and the fact that people used this as a means of being inactive, or as a cover for inertia. What about the will of God in this, because this has always been held up as the will of God by the Church?

Yes. The other element that I failed to mention is that within the last two years the usefulness of a pill, called Anovid, made by Searle & Co., and developed by Dr. Frederick and Dr. John Rock, has made the problem of population control seem much simpler to people, and, indeed, it is much