The Italian general elections, held last Sunday, appear to have
resulted in 'favour of the constitutional parties. The Socialists lost ground ; the Communista were defeated almost everywhere. The Nationalists - and their allies the Fascisti, whose badge is the Roman consular fasces, were successful. The methods of the Fascisti are as crude as those of the vigilance committees formerly existing in Western America. The Com- munists, subsidized from Moscow, -set up a reign of terror in many towns, promoting strikes and attacking employers and officials. As the Government assumed the part of a passive spectator, thb Fasoisti organized a counter-terror and dealt mercilessly with the Communists. The electors have now repudiated the revolutionaries. Italy's political methods are peculiar to herself, but after two years of turmoil the country seems to be settling down into normal ways.
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