Determined to go down in history as the Cupid of the Age, Benito Mussolini last week started firing wifeless mayors. Beginning alphabetically with Alessandria Province he appointed married men to replace the bachelor mayors of several towns ending in "o." Next day the last bachelor in Il Duce's Cabinet, elegant Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Fulvio Suvich, hastily married at Trieste a widow with two children.
In Rome the Dictator's bureau of vital statistics claimed that his "Battle of the Babies" has at last entered the winning phase, arresting Italy's declining population,...
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