CURB ON SOLDIERS’ BAD LANGUAGE
ITALIAN PENALTY FINES AND ARREST (Received June 15, 9.40 p.m.) LONDON, June 15. The Rome correspondent _of The Times says that soldiers using bad language will be punished by fines or even arrest, according to orders issued by the Under-Secretary of War (General Alberto Pariani), who is determined to stamp out the habit of swearing among the troops. Chaplains are commanded to teach conscripts not to fall into the habit of swearing. General Pariani describes swearing as a communistic custom and a sign of lack of self-discipline.
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Southland Times, Issue 23227, 16 June 1937, Page 5
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