FASCISTS TO FIGHT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1943, Page 4

FASCISTS TO FIGHT

MUSSOLINI’S LATEST ORDER. many new Appointments. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) 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 national directorate, provincial 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 Mussolini that they will serve the cause of the Fascist revolution with all their strength, and, if necessary, will shed 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 of the Industrial Confederation, three new presidents of other confederations, three presidents of major industrial undertakings, and a new Director-Gen-eral of Social Welfare. Professor Giovanni Balella replaces Count Volpi di Misurata as president of the Italian Confederation of Industry. Misurata, who has been chief of Italy’s economic organisations for many years, has visited Berlin and consulted with Herr Funk, the German Minister of Economic Affairs.