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...vote of 335 to 139 the Camera dei Deputati passed a vote of confidence in the Government, considered tantamount to passing the bill for electoral reform, which gives two-thirds of the seats to the party that gets a plurality of the votes. It was a great personal triumph for Mussolini. He had said he would have his way and he got it. At the conclusion of a rough, dictorial speech he exclaimed: "What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!" Ex-Premiers Orlando and Giolitti congratulated him; the entire Chamber rushed and hoisted him shoulder high...
...plan had in view a rapprochement with Britain, the creation of a separate Rhineland state, immediate negotiation with the Germans and the formation of an industrial ministry under the leadership of Loucheur. Poincaré was too strong. It was felt that an attack on his Ruhr policy would be tantamount to admitting the weakness of France. The scheme was dropped. Another plan is on foot, however, to force the Premier to resign on the Near Eastern question; but Poincaré is proving a difficult man to remove, principally because he is backed strongly on account of the Ruhr...
...recent address to the Prussian Diet, Herr Severing, Minister of the Interior, mentioned Ludendorff by name on several occasions. He charged him with what was tantamount to conspiracy against the Republic, and thereby intimated that Ludendorff's part in the reactionist activities is understood but not appreciated. The aims of the royalist organizations are delightfully naive; reestablishment of the monarchy, expulsion of the French and Belgians from the Ruhr, progressive negotiations with Poland in order to keep the front door to Russia wide open and suppression of all revolutionary elements in the country! The aims of the Government...
...question of policy the Germans are as adamant as ever in their conviction to resist the French. The " Franco-Belgian Entente " says that the real object of the Ruhr is to speed up coal deliveries, which seems tantamount to admitting defeat. They have, however, decided to requisition coal in the pits with their own labor backed by force, if the mine owners fail to pay a coal tax. But the true aim of the French and Belgians seems to be a separate agreement with Germany and the abandonment of the Versailles treaty...
...Because Senator Harding, while admitting that he has "no single constructive purpose," intends to formulate some hazy substitute League that will have the merit of Republican, not Democratic, authorship. This is tantamount to admitting that he would ask the 43 members of the present League, which has already prevented one war and stopped another, and which in the words of ex-President Taft conflicts at no point with the United States Constitution, to renounce their hopeful work, disband their League, and, to please him and the Republican Party, "rub it out and do it all over again...