Signor Mussolini has set to work to remedy the most
notorious of all the defects of one-man rule. He is providing for some kind of successor to himself. This, however, is only a part of the large legislative programme which he has laid before the Fascist Grand Council. The Council has approved of his Bill for making the present regime—especially the Grand Council itself— legal and constitutional. The general effect of the Bill is to give the Head of the Government and the Council a position of enduring authority over the Italian people. The Head of the Government is always to be the President of the Council, which is to be the " supreme organ." As for his own successor Signor Mussolini provides that in the absence of the Head the Secretary of the Fascist Party (who is also the Secretary of the Grand. Council) is to preside. The Secretary will always be appointed by the Head and will evidently be the most important politician in the State but one. When a Head dies the Council is to name possible successors to the King. Signor Mussolini has probably decided on his own succes- sor already.
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