MUST MARRY OR RESIGN

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 6 November 1933, Page 7

MUST MARRY OR RESIGN

LATE EDITION

FASCIST PARTY BACHELORS MUSSOLINI’S MARRIAGE DRIVE LISTS FOfRl COMING POLLS. EXCLUSION OF THE UNWED. (British Official Wireless.) Received I ji.ni! to-day. • U >■ ' ROME, Nov. o. Signor Mussolini has nominated font generals ancf four admirals to the Senate, thus removing them from the active list- and speeding up the promotion of juniors. “Marry or resign” is Signor Mussolini’s~order to all bachelors' holding exeeutivd' positions in the Fa*cist Party’.' Sigiidr Mussolini has always been insistent that the Party leaders should follow his own example m raisitig a large family. Hp has even persuaded some of his own reluctant Cahnet members to marry. 'Fascist Party lists are now being prepared for seats on municipalities and the Legislative Assembly and Senate. They exclude bachelors, many of whom in* the present Parliament, are hurriedly seeking brides in the hope of winning the Duce’s favour. It will be recalled that Mussolini’s first marriage ‘ ‘drive’ ’ was made through a bachelor tax devoted to maternity hospitals. The tax proved - such a crushing burden that many bachelors sought refuge in matrimony.