Foreign News: Italy Notes

Benito issued a decree giving protection to tenants against rent-raising landlords. The landlords protested, declared that the new measure would shake their confidence in Fascismo, discourage construction. Answered Mussolini :

'The landlords have shown themselves incapable of profiting by my previous decree, because they used it to increase rents exorbitantly. They must realize that liberty has duties as well as rights."

Gabriele dAnnunzio, reported seriously ill from gastritis (TIME, Mar. 3), recovered and assumed his duties as chief of the Seamen's Unions.

Senator Alberto Bergamini, for many years editor of the Giornale d'Italia and...

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