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SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1938.

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124 MILLION LIRE A YEAR

(By Jacob.Simon) United Press Stag Correspondent

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Italy spends 124 militon annually on propaganda of various kinds in foreign countries in an effort to make new converts for Fascism and to keep Italians living abroad in closer contact with their homeland, a study of the current financial budget reveals.

Almost half of this money, most of which comes from the budget of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, is spent on Italian schools abroad. The Italian government maintains 138 schools in foreign lands and gives financial assistance to an additional 654.

This alone costs the government 60 million lire yearly. These schools, which are chiefly established in the United States, South America and France, have total attendance of 05,000. The pupils are almost ex- clusively sons and daughters Italians living abrond and the main aim of the schouls is to teach them Italian and get them interested in the new Fascist Italy

Naturally the Italian government hopes the injority of these Italian boys will opt for Italian citizenship when they become of age, rather than accepting the nationality of the country in which they were born.

The Fascist Party boasts that more than 80,000 Italian boys and giris living in foreign countries are now regularly inscribed Ira the Balilla the organisation, recently renamed "Gloveniu del Littorio."

According to a recent party com- munication some 19,080 applications for membership in this organization were received in Latin America alone last year. The government yearly spends between five and six million re in assisting these forelan branches.

Last year the government at its own expense brought 18,000 of these Italian boys back to Italy to spend a few weeks in summer camps with their young Fascist brothers. Many of them came from the United States and Latin Americn. The same thing will be done this summer.

In addition to the Fascist organiza- tions in foreign countries which are directly subsidized by the govern- ment, there are many privato Italian Associations and clubs supported by wealthy Italian communities.

This

is particularly true in the United States where the Order of the Sons of italy is a flourishing organisation. In South America there 15 an Association of Italians.

Most of these non-official organiza- tions have a distinct bond with Fascist Italy. Many of them operate

on programmes fald down by the "Dante Alighieri," which is a govern. ment and supported organization created to spread Itatan culture and propaganda in foreign countries. This organization has 200 committees In foreign countries with

total membership of 23,000,

To further this work the govern- ment spends 10,000,000 lire annually which in entered in the Foreign Affairs budget as "defence of Itali- anity abroad." Exactly how this sum is expended is not divulged.

The second biggest item for foreign propaganda, niter schools, 15 20 million lire annually for "tourist propaganda." This appears in the budget of the Ministry of Popular Culture. This money mostly is spent on foreign advertising to attract tourists to Italy.

In addition the Ministry of Popular Culture spends about two and one- halt million lire annually on keeping Italian press altuches in the capitals of the world. The chief. task of these men is to try to obtain a better press for Fascist Italy in foreign newspapers.

Other items of a propaganda nature in the budgets of the ministries of Popular Culture and Foreign Affairs are: special political missions abroad, L.3,000,000 broadensis to foreign countries, L.500,000; foreign confer- ences and congress, L.,170,000; secret expenses, L.1,080,000.

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