ITALY'S WAR CAUSE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 5

ITALY'S WAR CAUSE

MORE FASCISTS FOR ARMY LONDON. April 30. Rome radio today quoted a new order under which members of the Fascist Party are no longer protected by their party jobs from joining the forces. "Those members of the Fascist Party who are at present employed in the national directorate or party organisations, and who are fit to fight, must be replaced by wounded members of the services," it said.' The radio also announced that a new article has been added to the Fascist Statute under which the secretary and vice-secretary of the Fascist Party are to take an oath to Signor Mussolini I that they will serve the cause of the 'Fascist revolution with all their strength and, if necessary, will shed their blood for the cause. A further reshuffle is revealed by an announcement that Mussolini has appointed a new Under-Secretary of State for Corporations, a new president lof the Industrial Confederation, three new presidents of other confederations, three presidents of major industrial undertakings, and a new directorgeneral of social welfare. Professor Giovanni Balella replaces Count Volpi di Misurata as president of the Italian Confederation of Indus- ! try. Count Misurata, who has been the chief of Italy's economic organisations for many years, has visited Berlin and consulted with Herr Funk, the German Minister of Economic Affairs.