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Whatever the reasons for this step, it was perfectly obvious that the Fascista Party, which means Mussolini, had everything to gain and nothing to lose. Under the provisions of the Electoral Reform Bill (TIME, May 28 et seq.) the Party with a plurality of votes obtains two-thirds of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies. On the basis of the last elections (1921) this would give the majority party 356 seats out of 535. For the Fascista Party this would mean an increase of 324 seats, in itself a very great advantage to Fascismo...
...Duke's immediate object is to raise 100,000,000 rubles ($51,400,000, pre-War rate) for his propaganda campaign. He appointed the Cossack General, Krasnov, as his aide-de-camp, and rented the Villa Choigny at Sauteny, Seine-et-Oise, as the temporary headquarters of the new movement...
Lucien Guitry and Mile. Spinelli (French favorites seen several seasons ago at the Ziegfeld Frolic) have the leading parts in Le Lion et la Poule, by Sacha Guitry, the first important production of the Paris season...
...report, plans for financial rehabilitation of Hungary, reports of the various countries holding mandates, World Court decision on Czecho-Polish dispute; discussion of the jurists' report on how the clauses of the Covenant should be interpreted. This inquiry grew out of the Italo-Greek dispute (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.), and is the main item on the agenda...
...again after dinner and at supper in the evening. The number of performers is limited by the licensing authorities to six. There is a "producer" and the orchestra is said to be "excellent." Each week is to see a different "cycle" of operas, including Rigoletto, II Trovatore, Faust, Romeo et Juliette, Lohengrin, A'ida, Tosca...