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Show Soviet Is Winning Fight Against Veils Moscow. Communist party workers say they now are at last having some effect in their campaign to modernize the Moslem women of the Near East. It took hundreds of communist "missionaries" "mis-sionaries" nearly two years In some localities lo-calities to persuade the women to remove re-move their high veils and participate In politics. Now, in Adjerbljan alone, however, more thun 22,(XX) women hove organized organ-ized In Industrial activity, while workshops work-shops for feminine Mohammedans, where they are tnnght that the role of woman Is far different from that of the usuul Moslem conceptions, have been established by hundreds In Turkestan, Bokhara and elsewhere. |