NEW WAR BOGEY.
.SIGNOR MUSSOLINI’S ATTACK ON BACHELORS. CONSTRUED AS A THREAT TO FRANCE. PARIS, March 16. Italy has replaced Germany as Franco’s war bogey. Tho latest FrancoItalian quarrel centres around Mussolini’s speech advocating a tax on bachelors. In France the birth rate was stationary, but the Italian birth rate was increasing. Three million children wore born every four years. Mussolini said “Bachclordoin is the gravest social illness confronting the nation. I am imposing a tax which will create, a fund to facilitate 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, neglect normal human development, ere at the mercy of more robust neighbours, who have a sublime belief in tho growing power of their nation.” France is dwelling on these words, which are construed as a threat.—(A. and N.Z.).
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Wairarapa Age, 18 March 1927, Page 5
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146NEW WAR BOGEY. Wairarapa Age, 18 March 1927, Page 5
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