ITALY: Top Woman

Benito Mussolini has woman's role in Fascist Italy all figured out. To teach it to Italian women is the chief function of the women's section of the Fascist Party, the Fasci Femminili (Women's Groups). Its presidency is Italy's top political job for women. Last week Mussolini gave the Fasci Femminili a new president: Countess Bianca Pio di Savoia.

She will boss the chairwomen of Italy's 12,000 female fasci. The prime tangible duty of their 200,000 members is to help run 50,000 Maternita e Infanzia clinics and many a hospital, which the Government subsidizes....

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