Fascist Figures

Hereafter any doctor who prescribes a diet for an Italian woman is no friend of Fascism. Alarmed & angry at last year's drop of 56,000 in the national birth rate. Premier Benito Mussolini last week gave the Italian Medical Congress a piece of his mind. The piece:

"You should insist upon correcting . . . the fashion of excessive reducing. This weakens the race and also has economic reactions. Another fallacy is that maternity diminishes womanly beauty. Precisely the reverse is true, as you all can testify. I am deeply convinced that our mode of eating, working, dressing, sleeping and our whole system of daily habits ought to be reformed. A word is often better than medicine."

To improve the Italian figure, and incidentally to help Italian rice growers, Il Duce proposed that every honest Italian eat two pounds additional rice per year.

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