Signor Mussolini, having reduced the Italian Chamber to impotence, announced
on Monday that he would not ask any more favours of it, but would prorogue the House forthwith. The dictator, by virtue of Parlia- mentary Acts, has plenary powers till June next. It is thought, however, that he will dissolve the existing Chamber and secure the election of a new Chamber in which, under the recent law, the Fascisti arc assured of an overwhelming majority. He will then be able to give a constitutional semblance to his absolute rule, as the Chamber will ratify any proposal that he may make. There has been some talk of his ruling without any Parliament, but that policy,' as Cromwell found, raises more difficulties than it solves. Signor Mussolini's Spanish imitator, the Marquis dc Estella, has governed so far without the Cortes.
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