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With a solemn flourish and a little very black ink His Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III last week signed away the Constitutional right of Italians to democratic government. This was the last act in a drama which began three years ago?a great drama for which Signor Mussolini supplied the livid theme...
...virtually scot free the Fascist murderers of the multimillionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, April 5, 1926). Leading U. S. correspondents have since revealed that at the time they and the Italian press were compelled to suppress material details of the trial? especially all indications that Signor Mus solini might himself have ordered the crime. After the trial successful Signor Farinacci was allowed to pass into discreet eclipse. Soon his post as Secretary General of the Fascist Party was taken by the present incumbent, harsh but not fanatical Augusto Turati. People were allowed to forget Castor Oil & Bludgeon Man Farinacci...
Babies' Hands. In his memoirs Signor Francisco Nitti, the Italian Prime Minister (1918-20) now declares: "During the War France, in common with other Allies, including our own Government in Italy, circulated the most absurd inventions to arouse the fighting spirit of our people. The cruelties attributed to the Germans were such as to curdle our blood. We heard the story of poor little Belgian children whose hands were cut off by the Huns. After the War a rich American, who was deeply touched by the French propaganda, sent an emissary to Belgium with the intention of providing a livelihood...
Thus last week stormed L'Impero, the arch-Fascist daily whose young proprietor-editor, Signor Mario Carli, is so especially a favorite of Il Duce...
Since even the Dictatorship of Signor Benito Mussolini pales beside such preventions, the one title fit for His Majesty Alexander Karageorgevitch,* last week seemed to be "Alexander the Absolute...