ITALY: Thin Ladies Flayed

"I know hundreds of ladies of the aristocracy and upper classes who believe that they have accomplished a super-human feat when they have presented their husbands with one son, as if they had performed a galling duty imposed by law to the exclusive benefit of man.

"Voluntary barrenness and reducing cures to rid her miserable body of every ounce of superfluous fat are the greatest crimes a woman can commit under the Fascist régime. . . ."

Thus last week stormed L'Impero, the arch-Fascist daily whose young proprietor-editor, Signor Mario...

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