Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-29
Badog|io DissoIves
Fascist. Chamber;
Promises Elections

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LONDON, July 29-Italy's Cham
Der of Easel and Corporations he's
been dissolved by order of Premier
Marshal Pietro Badoglios govern
ment, the Rome radio announced
today.
The Chamber of Easel and Cor
porations took the place of the
Italian Chamber of Deputies after
that 90-year-old legislative agency
was dissolved December IA, 1898.
1t was made up of the $50 members
of the National Fascist Council.
headed by Benito Mussolini as chief
of the government, and 500 members
of the National Council of Corpora
tons.
Political Parties Banned.
The Rome radio announced the
dissolution of the Chamber in a
broadcast which said Marshal Ba-
doglio's government had banned the
formation of any political party for
the duration of the war and also
prohibited display of any political
insignia.
The broadcast was recorded by
the Associated Press.
1t was announced that the release
of political prisoners - of whom
thousands had been rounded up I'M
der Mussolinis rule-was already in
progress.
Reports of spreading revolts sug-
gested that control of Italy might
be wrested from Marshal Badoglio
and that he might be compelled to
sue for an immediate peace.
Only One Emblem.
"The only emblem permissible now
is the tricolor," the Rome radio said.
The Rome broadcast continued:
"A new Chamber of Deputies will
be elected within four months after
the termination of the war and new
legislature will be set up.
The cabinet also decided to abro-
gate all Fascist legislation and the
King Immediately approved all the
measures.
The liberation of political prison.
ers already has started
TO place the new measures In
practice with the least possible delay,
all red tale was ordered cut.
precautionary measures for MAIN
tenance of public order have been
taken. Numerous persons who be-
longed to the dissolved Fascist party
have been rounded up
Revolts Spreading.
Reports of revolts spreading
through Italy suggested today the
possibility that the nations destiny
may be wrenched from the hands of
Premier Badoglio and that he may
be compelled to sue for an immedi-
ate peace.
While Badoglio's position in the
confused situation was not entirely
clear, there were indications that he
might be stalling for time in an at
tempt to get German troops out of
Southern Italy and get italian forces
back from the Balkans before APP
pealing to the Allies for an armistice.
The Rome radio continued to in
sist that it was the new governments
intention to continue the war
The London press, meanwhile,
welcomed the news of the formal
dissolution of the Fascist party but
asserted that it would not alter the
Allied attitude.
"Fascism may have been pro-
claimed dead but the system cannot
be killed by the mere pulling down
of emblems," said the London Daily
Mail, and warned that there was
danger of a calm and realistic ap-
proach to the Italian question being
swamped in wave of sentiment
tality.'
Those who always try to sepa-
rate the Nazis from the Germans as
il they were distinct races are doing
the same with the Fascists and
Italians" the paper added. I'VE
should keep clearly in our minds
that we are still at war with Italy"
The Times of London emphasized
that 1.-The Allied peoples should re-
member that Fascism was brought
down not by Badoglio but by the
overwhelming impact of Allied
arms"