ITALY: Bells

Bells

For many years the inflammatory deputies of Latin electorates have indulged at pleasure in conduct as tempestuously indecorous as the antics of a bad boy of six just deprived of a new toy. Only a fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 30) Fascist deputies, shrieking like wild Indians, dragged a Communist, Signor Maffi, from the Chamber by the hair of his beard. To that arch-stickler for authority, Premier Benito Mussolini, such doings have long seemed intolerable. Last week the cables carried news of a "reform" so...

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