ARROGANT FASCISM.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 17 November 1924, Page 9

ARROGANT FASCISM.

PRE-WAR LIBERTIES DEMANDED By CaMa —Press Association —Copyright. Router’s Teletrams. (Received November 18, midnight) LONDON, November 16. A Rome message states that the debates in the Chamber of Deputies during the past week have been curiously unreal owing to the deliberate absence of the whole of the Opposition Party as a protest against tlie Dictatorship regime. The debate on the foreign policy was concluded yesterday with a motio.. of confidence in Signor Mussolini carried by 815 to 6. There were twentysix abstentious.

Signor Mussolini declared that * long peace was necessary for Italy. Her foreign policy heretofore had bee., conducted via Paris, London, and sometimes Athens. He did not intend to ask permission of Paris, London or anyone else. At the same time there was no intention of hostility to any power.

Signor Gioletti (ex-Promier) caused a sensation by announcing his intention to vote against the Government, on tho ground of the press restrictions. Ho demanded that tho Italian people should not ho treated as though they were unworthy of tho freedom they enjoyed in the past.