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...foundations. As he walked one evening beside Tiber, Giacomo Matteotti, multi-millionaire Socialist Deputy, was set upon by fanatical blackshirts who jumped out of a closed automobile and seized him from behind. Bundling him into their machine, they kidnapped and brutally murdered him. For days a rigid Fascist censorship released only news that he had "disappeared." Then the details of the crime leaked out. Charges were preferred against prominent Fascists. II Benito himself did not escape the implication of ultimate responsibility. The entire Italian Cabinet turned in its resignation. And Dictator Mussolini barely kept his seat...
...thought that a break might occur. On the one hand was Dr. Chain Weizmann, onetime President of the World Zionist Organization, who has the backing of American Jewry. His program has been for colonization of Palestine with sound business or "capitalistic" methods. Opposed to him was a fiery Jewish Fascist, Vladimir Jabotinsky, inhabitant of Paris. He wants all the land of Palestine to be taken from its present owners and to be given to hundreds of thousands of Jews whom he would have quickly imported...
...Opposition was bolder-too bold for Italy. The Tribuna declared that the resignation was caused by the "foul campaign of misrepresentation carried out by the Fascisti in the days preceding the election." The Giornale d'ltalia said that the resignation was a protest against the Fascist régime and showed the depths to which political methods in Italy had fallen. For thus airing their opinions the first editions of the day were suppressed by the censor...
...recalled, however, that Signor Orlando was elected to the present Parliament on a Fascist ticket. When he deserted the Fascisti and went over to the Opposition (TIME, Dec. 1), he declared that he was not bound to resign, as he had been elected by the Liberal voters of Sicily who themselves had backed the Fascist ticket because he, Orlando, had backed it, and not because his constituents had any predictions for Fascism. The municipal election disproved Signor Orlando's contention and opponents averred that the only thing left for him to do was to resign...
...election was held during the past week, and resulted in 9,671 votes for the Fascist Party and 5,866 for the Liberal bloc, headed by ex-Premier Orlando...