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D'Anna was interned in June 1940 for being a member <strong>of</strong> the Fascio. Despite her<br />
husband's internment Dr. D'Anna remailll:d active in the Fascist movement, which<br />
led 10 bee inla'nment beina stron&ly recommended. From December 1940 to May<br />
1941 however, Dr. D'Anna pve the RCMP illfunnatioo to help Ft her busband<br />
released. Dr. D'Anna's husband was released from inlel'nlDel'l1 after only six months,<br />
his freedom bouaht at the cost <strong>of</strong> many ocbcr Italians beina interned.<br />
Fascists wtre not the only ones to recoanize the role women could play in<br />
political orpniDtions, many leftist &roup5 also utilized women members. Accordilll<br />
to a recent artick by Frau::a J.ac:oveaaand RlIb Ventresca, wbile the majority <strong>of</strong> anti·<br />
Fascists were men, tbere were a nu.mber <strong>of</strong> women abo engaged in this activity.<br />
Many <strong>of</strong> tbese women's activities took place as pan <strong>of</strong> their family life, but some<br />
women were active in their own riaht." There are two known cues <strong>of</strong> left-wing<br />
women beina arresled, inttrropted and threatened wim internment, that <strong>of</strong> AMie<br />
Buller and Gladys MacDonaJd. A prominent Communist Pany <strong>of</strong> Canada leader,<br />
Mrs. Annie Buller (GuraJ.nick) sat on the national eucutive <strong>of</strong> the Communist Party,<br />
was a WliorI orpaizet, became an aIdermaa for Toronco Wild ,. and manapd the<br />
Mid·Wess C/ariotI. Buller's spcrdles 10 strikers repcucd.ly got bet ineo uouble with<br />
me. RCMP, and she was arrested several times for aaiwion., iN:hadina after the<br />
EsteVu Strike. Buller was jailed apin in 1940 after an article she prinled in the<br />
"FraIU lacoYeua and Rob Ventrese:a. °1ca1ian Radicals in Canada: A Noee on<br />
Soucoes in Ica1y,· I.IIb<strong>of</strong>uIU TrrMfil, 37 (Sprinc 1996), 205.<br />
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