“Women have borne the brunt of the war more than the men in the field,” said Commendatore M. Blunno, Consul-General for Italy, at a function in the rooms of the Returned Soldiers’ Association at Wellington on Wednesday evening (states the Post). “Any praise of them would fall short if praise were attempted. Nature has endowed them with a different courage from men’s—the passive courage which is the highest and noblest form of courage. Women knew that the next minute they might be bereft of their dearest one, and. when the sad tidings came, they suffered in silence their ineffable grief and worked and continued to work with that self-denial which is the sublimest form of patriotism. In Italy we are going to erect a monument to the Italian mother.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5129, 23 May 1927, Page 2
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129Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5129, 23 May 1927, Page 2
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