Pre-Election News*

Ex-Premier Orlando, who represented Italy at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and was a member of the "Big Four" announced his return to politics in a letter to the Mayor of Palermo. He will seek election on a Fascista ticket.

The Italian Council of the Labor Federation decided to shun politics at the forthcoming elections. Its members are thus left free to choose between the Fascisti and anti-Fascisti candidates. The Council, however, took the opportunity to express its principles on labor and civil liberties.

Ex-Premier Bonomi, anti-Fascista leader, presided over the first convention of the Democratic League, a unien of the old Liberal and Democratic Parties. It was resolved to champion at the elections "parliamentary government, statutory liberty and sovereignty of the vote without coercion of any party." The same resolution condemned the present electoral law (TIME, May 28, et seq.) as an "artifice which assured a majority to any party which could use the governmental agencies."

*The elections are to take place in April.