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...Communists achieved their gain after years of Marshall Plan aid to Italy, at a time when the country was probably in better economic shape than at any time in modern history, and despite the Roman Catholic Church's strong intervention for the Demo-Christian De Gasperi. Italian politicians had some explanations...
...pilots feel that "business as usual with the Communists" rates the same comment and punishment as any other treasonable action. But then, we may not be as realistic as some in our country who have more to gain than their lives and freedom...
Italy last week went into Round Two of its electoral contest (TIME, June11). The scene: poverty-stricken Sicily, which was electing a 90-member legislative assembly. There Reds scored even bigger gains in popular vote than in the municipal elections in Northern Italy two weeks before. The Communists, who rolled up a vote of 464,000 in 1948, gained 180,000. The Demo-Christians lost nearly 400,000. Because of Italy's new electoral law, which provides that any party with a plurality in a district automatically gets two-thirds of the seats for that district, the Demo-Christians...
...Indian Ocean?" And when British Foreign Secretary Castlereagh opposed a puppet Poland under Russian control, "he was curtly informed that Russia, already in occupation of Poland, possessed an army of 600,000 men." Most familiar of all: "[Castlereagh] knew that the Czar would bluff and bluster from gain to gain so long as he thought that the West was pacific and divided...
...other problem which must be solved is whether to accept Western students while rejecting better qualified Eastern students. Educational standards might carelessly be sacrificed in order to gain better national distribution...