ITALY
MUSSOLINI’S DILEMMA. DEMOCRACY OR DICTATORSHIP? (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright). (The Times.) LONDON, June 10. The Times’s special correspondent in Rome states that Signor Mussolini in a speech in the Senate attributed recent outbreaks to the opening of Parliament. He denied that the Fascisti despised Parliament. Parliament merely ceased to be important because syndicalism dealt it a death blow. He did not intend to sell his birthright for a mess of pottage, namely, the assistance of the dregs of Italian political life. The correspondent adds that Mussolini was never in such danger politically. The country feels the discomfort of Fascist rule while they have not yet had time to appreciate its benefits. There has been a rapid series of internal quarrels leading to resignations. Even the Fascists themselves are at loggerheads, the question being whether Fascimo intends to be constitutional Government or Government based on force. Mussolini knows his is the only possible Government, yet it would be defeated at the elections.
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Southland Times, Issue 18965, 12 June 1923, Page 5
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