Foreign News: Orlando Out

Alleging that Italy is a land where liberty no longer exists, ex-Premier Orlando last week resigned his seat in the Camera del Deputati.

His action followed the mobbing he received the week before at Palermo, his home town in Sicily, at the rough hands of the local Fascisti (TIME, Aug. 10). In his letter to the President of the Chamber, Signor Orlando charged that his party (Liberal) had been unfairly defeated in the municipal elections,* declared that there was now no longer a place for a man of his record and political beliefs.

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