Evening star., 1923-07-22
BY HENRY W. BUM.

ME following is brief summary of the
most important news of the world for
the seven days ended July 81:
Italy.-Mussolini achieved a mighty triumph
Oh July Is. the proper description of which,
strangely enough, would require u lavish
of Americanese. 1t had been generally pre-
dicted that he would get by with his So
called electoral reform" bill. and only just
get by. Instead he put over that astonish-
ing proposal to the tune of S35 votes for and
1873 contra In fact. he had the opposition
buffaloed fare-y -you-well.
Perhaps it was his speech that stampeded
them. perhaps not. At any rate, prior to the
vote he made speech wherein he told his
enemies (and especially the popularists,
Catholic party'D where to get off. He empha
sized the more subtle points of his argument
him.. "Facism has in its hands the power.
he shouted" (bifD, and will to hold it, Ctwo
biffs). Abiding to the main charge against
the bill. namely, that it traversed true liberty.
he posed the pertinent query: What is lib
ery?" To which he. himself. vouchsafed the
very illuminating and unequiyocal answer,
which solves all doubts vanshes all q1od,
bin. There is no such thing as absolute lib
erty. yet many forms of liberty exist"
any longer exist in Italy is liberty of the
press for Wthin , ths pas past week Mussoni
The speech concluded. Mussolini was hoist
resounded with "the fascista cry" and fascista
SONGS in which the gallery Joined h and ex x
IremlerS orlando and tIlOItt1 ruSneu TO
grasp the hand of the black-Shirted hero.
X x x x
Turkey.-The Lausanne treaty is to be
signed July "a. Ismet Pasha has proved
himself one Of the greatest of diplomats For
many weeks there had been deadlock on
the Ottoman debt and on concessions granted
by The old Constantinople regime Apparently
Ismct I'asha had consented to "a sort of
kind of recognition of concessions quasi
concessions. or alleged concessions, or conces-
sions by your leave. granted or alleged to have
been granted by the Constantinople govern
ment. prior TO the great war. to the Vickers-
Armstrong Company, the Turkish Petroleum
Company (chiefy British interest and a
French railroad company, and apparently
through the interposition at the last moment
interest of the open door" Ismet withdrew
this recognition of sorts.
1t would seem, then, that the French and
British pre-war concessiOnnaires are left out
in the cold and that by the same token the
sion to celebrate As to the ottoman debt.
Ismet served point-blank notice that his gov
ernment would not pay interest in sterling or
French gold francs. as required by the debt
agreement. We are too poor, said he. To
be sure the treaty simply ignores these
matters, theoretically. the concessions and the
debt agreement have the same validity in the
sight of Rhadaman thus that they always
Pelle read declarations To the effect that their
governments would never, never, never per
NIT that their nationals suffer deprivation
or they going TO suffer, that shall be
as il may be. The Angora government seems
bent on reputation precisely to the extent
that it may seem safe. In the present posture
of European affairs it seems to be perfectly
safe.
The new Angora assembly will convene
about August /, and is expected to ratify at
once this treaty in which the Giaour is once
more outfaced' and outwitted.
Can it be that the future historian Will ind
that ISmet Pasha's success in the Lausanne
negotiations was in large part due to the