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...Italy, the sentiment had not yet broken through the surface so visibly, but the Communists moved fast to help it along. Cachin went to Italy bearing the word. Sure enough, the evening after Cachin arrived, Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti in a speech at Bologna said "complete" collaboration between East and West was possible. He denied Russia was planning a "revolutionary war." The same day the Reds halted their "campaign of noncollaboration" in the factories. Reports circulated that woolly-minded Giuseppe Saragat was considering a new "unity" bloc between his recently anti-Communist group of Socialists and the Nenni (pro-Stalin...
...academic task force debouched from Nicholas Murray Butler Library and cut across the campus north to Low Memorial Library. In the procession marched the presidents and representatives of 310 U.S. and 38 foreign universities and colleges, ranged in order of seniority-from the University of Bologna (founded 1088) down to New York State University, which so far exists only on paper. Oxford was represented by British Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks, the University of Pennsylvania by President Harold Stassen, Kansas State College by President Milton Eisenhower (whom some nearsighted spectators in the crowd of 19,000 greeted with applause and whispers...
Communists did more than talk. A new rash of Communist-inspired strikes broke out in Italy. In the north, dairy and ricefield workers struck. Sicilian dockworkers and Sardinian coal miners threatened to join. In the Red fortress of Bologna, Communists called a 24-hour general strike. The objects of Communist parliamentary and trade-union tactics: to trip up the government as it inched toward stability...
Fear still flickered through Italy on the morning after the election. Bologna, the Red capital, seemed like a dead city, its medieval porticos empty, its gleaming pastry shops deserted. In Milan's Cathedral Square, 25,000 Communist partisans staged a demonstration (despite a government ban) ; they were dispersed by police, who fired machine guns into the air, and by a timely rainstorm. One policeman was killed. But beaming Minister of the Interior Mario Scelba was sure that his security forces could maintain order...
...trouble was that reforms would not be easily carried out. Many De Gasperi supporters were dead against them. Giovanni Elken, Jewish secretary of the Christian Democratic Party in Bologna, explained: "Six million of our votes were cast by people who were just antiCommunists. I've even talked to a monarchist who believed that we will restore the monarchy. Yet it is our essential moral duty to bring about reforms that will raise wails from these six millions." Said Father "X," the Milan priest who organized Catholic partisans and kept machine guns in his study last winter (TIME...