INTOLERANCE OF FASCISM.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 125, 29 May 1925, Page 7

INTOLERANCE OF FASCISM.

ITALIAN DEPUTY'S ATTACK. LONDON, .May 11 Signor Sturzo, leader of the Popular party in the Italian Parliament, writing in the "Westminster Gazette," says all nine Italian Parties oppose. Fascism, which ha.s two small groups of supporters. The reason for opposition is the systematic violation of civil and political liberties by Signor Mussolini's Government on the ground that necessity knows no law, but there are no circumstances which justify suspending the operation of the Constitution. The principal charge against the Government is incapacity to prevent political crimes and the fact that the extreme Fascisti demand the introduction of exile, internment and death as penalties for political offences directed against one section of the citizens. The kidnapping and murder of Signor Matteotti, the deputy, means for Italy what the Dreyfus case meant for France, but there will be no revolution since the constitutional institutions of other countries have survived more difficult tests. The "Westminster Gazette,"' in a leading article, accuses Signor Mussolini of megalomania and quotes a story of the repression and outrage connected with the confiscation of the "Corrierc Delia Sera." an important evening journal in P,omc. Such methods, it says, cannot continue. Signor Mussolini cannot turn back. He must rely on the extremists, but he should limit his excesses before the Constitution goes down to ruin.