FRANCE'S NEW BOGY
THE MUSSOLINI MENACE;
MAKING BACHELORS MARR#
(United Press Association.-Copyright.i (Received 17th March, 1 p.m.) j PABIS, 16th MarcK. ': Italy has replaced Germany ai France's war bogy. The lal/St FrancoItalian quarrel centres around Mussolini's speech advocating a tax on bache. lors. In France the birth rate was stationary, but the Italian birth rate -waa increasing. Three million children wera born every four years. 'Mussolini said:' Bache!ordoin is the gravest social ill.' ness confronting the nation. lam in*, posing a tax which will create a fund to taciUtate marriage and assist poor children. Italian bachelors will quickly realise that it is better economy to marry. Those countries, which by poltroonery, selfishness, and laxity nejrlect normal human development, are at the mercy of robuster neighbours, who have a sublime belief in the crowina power of their nation." ■ France is .dwelling on these words, which are construed as a threat.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 64, 17 March 1927, Page 9
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