Dictations

P:. The right and duty of the Italian Senate to sit as the High Court of Justice on impeachment cases was perverted, last week, by a decree of the Cabinet--in which Dictator Mussolini holds seven portfolios.*

Hereafter not the whole Senate but a committee of 50, elected by a majority vote, will constitute the Court. Since there are only some two score anti-Fascist Senators, the Fascist majority in the Senate will hereafter completely dominate the sole tribunal before which Il Duce might conceivably be impeached.

P:. Promulgated by Signor Mussolini for the adoption of his Cabinet was a decree which would compel Italian cinema exhibitors: 1) To devote 10% of their total projection time to domestic feature films "if available"; and 2) To pay in rental for these Italian films 26 per cent of their net receipts--thus creating a forced subsidy of the fledgling Italian film industry.

*Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, War, Marine, Aviation, Interior, Labor.