When Charon ferried the soul of the assassinated Socialist Deputy Matteotti over the Styx (TIME, June 23), the people of Rome became as excited as when, over two thousand years before, Marcus Antonius had stirred their for- bears to the burning indignation of the Ides of March, following the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Matters came to a head, apparently, in the Camera del Deputati last week when, in consequence of a charge that he had incited Fascisti to acts of violence, that terminated in the assassination, Deputy Giunta offered to resign the Vice Presidency...
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