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Speech delivered at Padua at the first Women's Fascista Congress, on 2nd June 1923.
Ladies,-If I am not mistaken, this, which is inaugurated here to-day, is the first Women's Fascista Congress of the "three Venices. " The title and the field covered by this first Congress of yours are full of profound significance. Fifty years ago one could not speak of the "three Venices"! Venice herself, after the magnificent years of heroism of 1848 and 1849, was still held by the shackles of foreign slavery. In 1866 we liberated Venice, one of the Venices. Fifty years afterwards we liberated the other two-that which has as its boundary the devoted and impregnable Brenner, and the other which has as its boundary the not less devoted nor less impregnable Nevoso.