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Show U .rJ-s Vl3 f-f II Duce Greets I Mothers and Their Children Fecundity being the most desirable desir-able feminine virtue, in the eyes of Premier Mussolini, these Italian ! mothers at Potenza brought their offspring with them when they gath-: gath-: crcd to meet I Duce. Premier Mussolini is here shown chatting i with a gi'uup of moihers, during his visit lo Polen;:;. I For siworjl yearr. .M.is.'olini and his Fascist government have urged the rearing of large families. Various Vari-ous government funds have been appropriated to give financial aid to families with several children, and the result has been a gradual increase in Italy's birthrate. Germany under the Hitler government govern-ment has also used similar schemes to check the declining birth rate and to increase the population. The war and the recent financial distress dis-tress in European countries has caused a falling off in the population popula-tion figures, and looking to the future, fu-ture, the militaristic governments have used every means to increase tiie population. |