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...Chamber of Deputies has never pleased me!" II Duce exuberantly told the Council which pleases him at the moment very much. "When the Fascist regime was created we buried political liberalism.* Today we bury economic liberalism...
...Benito Mussolini, the Duce who has mastered Italian politics so thoroughly that his main interest now lies in turning the state into a business run efficiently by businessmen, pushed preparations last week to cut out what he has come to think of as Italy's political appendix, the Chamber of Deputies...
Promptly up popped that fiery Roman Syndicalist President Arturo di Marsanich of the National Confederation of Fascist Syndicates of Commerce. While Il Duce sat expressionless as stone, Signor Marsanich cried: "There is only one logical consequence of Fascist corporative policy: the Council of Corporations should absorb the Chamber of Deputies and become the sole legislative assembly. . . . Italy will then have an assembly of men qualified to legislate on economic matters as well as those qualified to legislate in the fields of ethics and politics...
Arose the loudest hubbub in years at a meeting presided over by Il Duce. Every member of the Council seemed to have his own notion of how to proceed. Il Duce encouraged all to spout their ideas, only ringing his bell when the clamor grew too great. ''This meeting," said one of the Dictator's aides, "is the first of a series at which will be worked out the final economic organization of the Corporative State...
Observers saw in the guaranteed bond issue a trend. The bonds will be issued through the Italian equivalent of the Hoover-Roosevelt R. F. C., the Istituto Ricostruzione Industrial created by II Duce early this year (TIME, Feb. 20). Other rescue parties, other guaranteed bond issues will undoubtedly follow, putting the State further and further into business. Simultaneously business will be put further and further into the State, as the National Council of Corporations supplants the Chamber of Deputies. Last week Dictator Mussolini loomed as the exponent of a synthesis different from but almost as sweeping as Dictator Stalin...