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Neither. With typical Communist cynicism he had maneuvered his party into the parliamentary driver's seat. He had (to paraphrase Disraeli) caught Premier de Gasperi's Christian Democrats bathing and walked off with their vestments...
...alive." Wrote Rome's independent Il Momento: "This is a prime example of American qualunquismo. . . .* It is naturally acclaimed by a people who like to see on their stage only a depiction of their own small lives." Wrote another: "Who knows but what [Premier] De Gasperi may have got mixed up in the theater and staged this? Like him, it praises all the simple virtues-but it is so very, very dull." Complained a hungry-sounding left-wing critic: "In every act someone is eating something. This kind of home-cooked comedy . . . represents...
...cause of De Gasperi's setback was of interest to France, Holland and all other countries where Communist voting strength is far from a majority but where Communist influence over labor unions gives the party a practical veto (by strike) over Government action. This is what happened in Italy...
...Gasperi was in fact defeated by the refusal of dissident Socialist Giuseppe Saragat to join his new Cabinet. Saragat had refused because he knew that gaining cabinet posts or parliamentary seats would be futile unless anti-Communists found a way to reduce the power which the Communists derived from control of labor unions...
Saragat, in refusing to join De Gasperi's Government, had decided to tackle the Communist position at its labor union roots. His group, planning to contest union elections during the next few months, did not want to be tagged as conservatives. The Communists saw the danger and fought him tooth & nail. Recently, when Alessandro Cappelletti, burly head of the Land Workers' Union, openly came out for Saragat, the Communists thew him bodily out of his office, later "legalizing" the act by also voting him out of office...