The Washington herald., 1921-05-15
By GUGLIELMo FERRERo.

ROME, May l4.-May is In all
probability will be a decisive day
in the history of the new Italy. The
chamber to be elected on that day
by universal suffrage will not have
to deal with business of ordinary
administration
1t will have to deal with certain
difficulties no longer possible 10
elude: To re-establish the empire OF
the law, putting an end to bombs
to the red and white terrors. inva-
sions of the land. occupation Of fac
tories. eXtortions, boycottings. puni-
tive expeditions and burnings OF
the chambers of labor.
Must Avert Disaster.
1t will have to prevent the bank
ruptcy of the State, masked or man.
ifest: to save the administration
from the disaster threatening IL or
account of the desperate condition
of members Of public officials who
II they were not TO steal, would be
condemned to die of starvation.
1t is no longer possible to put of
to tomorrow the burden Of Italy II
the new chamber does not prove
capable of establishing out OF its
members a government which really
knows how to govern and to loosen
or cut the knots of these difficulties
we shall find ourselves, within tn,
space of not more than a year. fac
ing a revolutionary situation tina,
will be irremediable.
Because IL would be impossible
to make a third appeal to universal
suffrage within such a short space
OF time, either the new chamber
must be a vital organ or Italy will
shortly find herself with her back
to the wall and facing a definitive
political crisis which win be much
vaster and deeper than that which
has troubled her up 10 the presen-,
whence we have the question: How
and under what conditions may the
new chamber come into being as 4
vital organ?
Socialist Power wanes.
Many people think that II would
be quite SUFFICIENT IL there were a
general determination of Socialist
deputies by some means, but that is
too simpl a remedy. Let us give >
glance at the legislature which has
just come to an end. Has IL been
so sterile because a little less than
a third of the chamber was Social
list? The power Of the Socialist
party decreases in the chamber in
proportion as the number of its
deputies increase.
The action Of the Socialist group
has never neen 80 negative as I'm
this last legislature, in which ,,
was so numerous what has Il done
outside Of useless tumults and chat
terings?
All the difficulties that have
brought about the dissolution OF
the chamber were born of the dts
cords and uncertainties Of the other
political groups on which the gov
ernment had preferred to lean. II
was difficult for the government 10
act. because whatever II attempted
IL ran the risk Of arming the frac-
tions Of its majority against one
another
Made Rival Groups Fight.
The state examination. both on
account of its entrinsic nature and
on account Of the stupid way in
which II was conceived. set the
populars and the groups of the
left at one another's throats. The
peace OF Rapallo induced the reno
walton group and the nationalists to
make an attempt TO join hands with
the hated Socialists against the
government. The control Of the in
dustries made all the goups more
or less uneasy and not without
reason.
In it's turn. this mutual want OF