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...first Fascist Parliament was opened in state by King Vittorio Emanuele III on the ninth anniversary of Italy's entry into the War, and was a great contrast to the ceremony of 1920 when Communists dominated the scene. On this occasion not a Communist nor a Socialist was seen, much less heard...
...Senators and Deputies left immediately, but some of the young and ardent Fascisti had not finished. As soon as the wheels of the royal coaches had started to revolve, their constraint vanished and with relief akin to that felt after the passage of a thunderstorm they volleyed the Fascist hymn Giovinezza...
Thus gently 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...
...Herald stated that it possessed authentic information that Mussolini had declared that if two British Labor M. P.'s should go to Italy to study Fascist election methods, in response to the invitation of Italian Socialists, he would have them turned back at the frontier...
...that their despatches would be delayed by Mussolini's hidden censorship only when they said something that the black-shirted officials might resent. The only foreign journalists in Italy to be molested have been those whose opinions of Fascismo were not friendly-just as in Italy only anti-Fascist papers have been burned, only anti-Fascist editors have been beaten, only hostile plants have been wrecked...