The convention voted yesterday! to send a draft agreement to all governments asking international action for naturalization in their! own right for married women.j Such laws have already been passed in the United States and in; Russia. Beig: has given. Belgian' women the right to retain their own nationality if married to foreigners, and bills are pending in Great Britain, France, and Germany.
Sweeping economic reforms were! indorsed yesterday by which a husband would pay his-wife a share of his income and a wife on the basis of so-called disability would pay her husband a share of her income; also by which Government pensions would be paid to widowed: mothers with dependent children.
One of the: most interesting events of the congress was the Government reception yesterday on Palatine. Hill. The Premier, Benito Mussolini, received his guests on top of the hill overlooking the ruins of ancient Rome, where women once had the vote.
A mass meeting last evening was addressed by a dozen leading women representing different count-
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