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...which helped ravaged Italy back on the road to recovery. By 1948, when Italians went to the polls to elect a new Parliament, the Red tide had been turned back; in that historic election, the Communists lost heavily to Italy's free parties, led by Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Demo-Christians. But the Communists still controlled the captured towns. Last week Italy was again holding municipal elections (beginning with North Italy, to be followed by the rest of the country later), and the anti-Communists had decided to storm the Red strongholds...
Many Britons are among those who think that the danger of war lies in provoking the Communists. British influence was a powerful factor on Truman in both the firing of MacArthur and the speech defending it. Italy's Premier Alcide de Gasperi, when he heard of the firing, called it "the greatest victory of British diplomacy since...
Togliatti denounced the Christian Democratic government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi as "the government of war, of no social reform, of rising prices . . ." Then Togliatti turned his attention to foreign affairs...
...Gasperi's real test is still ahead: the large defense program which he is about to submit to parliament. On an issue as critical as defense, De Gasperi probably will be able to unite his party, carry...
Labor M.P.s scurried around getting signatures to a note of apology disassociating themselves from Churchill's "insulting reference," sent it off to Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi. Churchill apologized, too. Said he in a public statement: "I am sorry if any remark of mine . . . should seem to imply disrespect to the Italian people." Shortly after, Churchill developed a localized staphylococcal infection (boils), was ordered to rest by his doctor...