ITALY: Electoral Bill

Debate of Premier Benito Mussolini's bill to reform the electoral law* (TIME, Dec. 29) provided abundant scope for the fiery oratory and violent scenes which have made the Italian Chamber of Deputies so justly famed.

The beginning of the debate was enlivened by the re-entry into the Chamber of the Communists, who decided to abandon their boycott in order to be able to heckle the Government. Their spokesman, Signor Grieco, was not long in starting his attack. In a bitter speech, full of the usual Communist phrases, he attacked Fascism mercilessly for its...

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