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Foreign News: Lady of the Axis

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Most noteworthy Italian exponent of the Fascist dictum that woman's place is in the home is none other than Donna Rachele Mussolini. For more than two decades this 49-year-old onetime waitress has been a strict homebody, has been seldom seen and never heard in public, has mean while presented her lord, Benito Mussolini, with no less than four strapping bambinos.

By contrast Italy's outstanding exception to such Fascist mores can also be found in Il Duce's family. Although Signor Mussolini's favorite and eldest child, Edda, has done her duty to the State...

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