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After the recent scathing anti-League campaign in the Fascist Press (TIME, Nov. 27) many an Italian had expected the Grand Council to fire not a blank but the bullet of Italian resignation from the League. Il Duce's acts (as distinguished from his words) are, however, nearly always extremely cautious. He is working slowly (and he hopes surely) to root democracy out of the League, as he has rooted it out of Italy. Last Spring he tried to create an "authoritarian" bloc of Great Powers to put the League in its place by drawing Britain, France and Germany...
Since then Il Duce has been out to change the framework of the League, sincerely believing that the voices of common people and common nations ought not to interrupt the deliberations and decisions of The Great...
Deliberately the Grand Council did not postulate last week how the framework of the League should be changed. Il Duce's strategy is not to try to impose a solution (Italy is not strong enough for that) but to make Rome the rallying point of all foes of the League-as-it-is. Let others suggest what the League should become; then, when official suggestions begin to roll in, Italy will add hers to the pot and Il Duce will try to emerge as Chief Cook...
...judge from Fascist editorials, Cook Mussolini favors: 1) explicit divorcement of the League Covenant from the Treaty of Versailles (which Il Duce has long held should be revised to appease Germany and bestow on Italy certain territories which she was promised before she entered the War but failed to get at the Peace Conference); 2) expulsion of common nations from the League Council which would become a permanent committee of Great Powers, nebulously "responsible" to the Democratic League Assembly of all states; 3) drastic reduction in League expenditures and personnel on the theory that Geneva has become a hive...
...tenets, one, that inflation is by nature uncontrollable, and two, that Mussolini is a power unto himself, the second question will appear wholly gratuitous. But to the remaining minority the query will have its point. Even though the wage cutting scheme be inferior to the price-raising, alternative, II Duce might infinitely prefer to slash at the defenceless proletariat in the usual fashion rather than tread so heavily on the toes of his fixed-income supporters. Even though wage-cutting, as R. G. Hawtrey has pointed out from his eyrie in the Bank of England may not prove sufficient...