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Show War Is Found to Cause Rise in British Crime WASHINGTON. The war has produced pro-duced in Britain an increase in bigamy, crimes of violence and juvenile delinquency, Sir Norman Birkett, noted British lawyer and judge of the king's bench division of the high court, told reporters at a press conference. 3-. Justice. Birlviii. said thaithe in-' terruption of normal family life and the relaxation of parental control due to the movements of large numbers num-bers of the population into the army and evacuation areas were responsible respon-sible for this increase. The blackout black-out was mainly responsible for the larger number of crimes of violence, he said. Despite these crimes and the emergency powers held by the British Brit-ish government, however, the essential essen-tial freedoms of the British people had been maintained, he added. Freedom of speech, both in parliament parlia-ment and in the press, had been maintained, and even enemy aliens who had to be interned had received the right to a limited amount of freedom to govern themselves, he said. |