ITALY: Veni, Vidi, Vici

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Final results of the elections showed that Fascista Party polled 4,600,000 votes, that the parties combined with Fascismo polled 400,000 votes, other parties 2,100,000. The new Chamber will be composed of 374 Fascisti, 39 Popular Party, 26 Socialists, 22 Maxmilists, 17 Liberals, 17 Communists, 12 Constitutionalists, 11 Social Democrats, 7 Republicans, 3 Peasants' Party, 2 Slavs, 2 Germans, 2 Scandinavian Autonomists. Total 534. The Popular Party will, in general, support the Fascisti, which gives Benito control of 413 seats or nearly 80% of the Chamber. The practical effect of this result is to ensure a Fascisti Government for the next five years, when according to the Constitution the Chamber must be dissolved. Ad interim it is impossible for the Government to be defeated.

The difference between "yes" in German, French and Italian has been thus described: The German say Ja; the French, Oui, oui; the Italians Si, si, si.

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