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To give Italian Deputies something to talk about last week Benito Mussolini, who has served notice that he will abolish the Chamber next spring, put on a sensational parliamentary show about George V's Island of Malta.

Technically the Dictator was only listening to interpolations, but in Fascist Italy no deputy can interpolate until his question has been submitted in advance to the Government and approved. Star interpolators last week were Chief Inspector of State Railways Deputy Mario D'Annunzio, son of the posturing poet, and Deputy General Ezio Garibaldi, black-shirted grandson of Italy's red-shirted...

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