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...reminded of their civic duty and the Fascist cudgels and castor oil, panic-stricken electors rushed to the polls to "vote the right way." More than 6,000,000 voters-over 50% of the electorate-turned out-a high record for Italy.* The new electoral system (TIME, May 28, et seq.) is a triumph of the ingenuity of the Latin mind. Broadly speaking, the party receiving the largest number of votes, providing its plurality be one-quarter of the "total vote cast, will receive 356 seats-two-thirds of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The remaining one-third...
There came an end to the treason trial at Munich (TIME, March 3 et...
...Union Franchise for Woman Suffrage is piqued because Messieurs les Senateurs et Deputés have ignored the suffrage question. These active ladies have decided to send all of the recalcitrant males in le Parlement a letter, pointing out that Belgian women vote, that Primo de Rivera has decreed the vote for the senoritas of Castille and Aragon, and that Benito Mussolini has promised that the donnas of Italy may vote sometime soon...
...French Catholics in Turkey; at Toulon, France. Because, four years ago, he married a Protestant divorcée, the Archbishop of Paris at the last minute forbade Church rites at his funeral in the Saint Louis Chapel of the Invalides. In the presence of les maréchaux Joffre et Petain, Mme. Millerand and other friends, the military rites were conducted on the steps of the chapel...
After the protracted struggle in the Chamber of Deputies (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.) the Emergency Taxation Bill, which had since the fall of the franc become indispensable to the negotiation of the loan of $100,000,000 from J. P. Morgan & Co., faced the possibility of defeat in the Senate. There the Government rested on a doubtful majority...