The Italian Corporative State It has long been Signor Mussolini's
intention that the Italian Chamber of Deputies should be superseded, at the proper time, by a body designated to express the will of the Corporative State. It had been supposed that this body would be the National Council of Cor- porations established four years ago in anticipation of the creation of the Corporations themselves. But his speech to the assembly of 800 persons chosen- to form the councils of the 22 corporations recently created appeared to indicate that this new body is to be the :assembly of his choice, which is to form the supreme deliberative body in the Fascist State. In any case the solemn occasion of its meeting at Rome was hailed, by, the Duce as the inauguration of a new stage in the system he is building up. There already exist the ,syndicates, .feder- ations and confederations of employees and .employed in industry. The Councils of the 22 new Corporations will be charged with the duty of planning and controlling the whole industrial life of the country, each its own section ; and the Assembly-of the Councils will presum- ably unify their efforts. Signor Mussolini introduces the world to the machinery, of- his planned State] It next' remains to show how that machinery will work.
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