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Reviewing some of last year's copies of TIME, I noted the following in the issue for Feb. 12, 1940: "But before he [Mussolini] embarked on all this, he gave an early morning order: the task of recodifying Italian law, which he began 17 years ago . . . must be completed without fail by the end of 1940."
I haven't seen anything about the completed recodification of Italian law either last year, or thus far this year and have just been wondering. . . .
WM. N. JOHNSON Detroit, Mich.
— Some code books have been issued or rewritten, but the job of recodifying Italian law is still unfinished. Mussolini has lately had more pressing problems.—ED.