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...action." This did not mean fusion, which the Socialists, after a furious split, had rejected last April. But an agreement calling for a vigorous nationalization program and the conquest of power by the working classes would probably pry the Socialists loose from their coalition with Premier Alcide de Gasperi's moderate Christian Democrats. Right-wing Socialist Giuseppe Saragat, who had led the fight against fusion, went along witH the new pact and read into it a portentous international significance. He said...
...discussions with Pertini. Moscow-trained Longo, an eloquent, sardonic veteran of the resistance movement, worked on resistance veteran Pertini in a series of secret meetings beginning in July. He got nowhere until mid-October, when Pertini began to waver. Longo's arguments included the charge that De Gasperi's government was dragging its feet on nationalization and land reform. Increasingly, Longo's case was helped by the West's blunders: Paris Conference treaty terms which Italians considered harsh and impossible to meet; failure of UNRRA shipments because of U.S. strikes; resentment at the cutting of Italian...
Losing a Country. On the basis of last June's elections, the Socialists and Communists together are now the strongest group in Italy, with about 40% of the vote against 35% for the Christian Democrats. De Gasperi may be forced to deal with the right (thus alienating some of his present supporters), or else take a back seat to the Marxists...
...infuriated demonstrators quickly counterattacked with sticks and stones. They swarmed through the palace, splintering furniture, shattering windows before they were halted 100 feet from Premier Alcide de Gasperi's office. Three hours later, they finally drifted off. Behind them they left two dead and 141 injured in Rome's worst riot since the angry days which had spawned Mussolini's regime...
...week's end a placatory 35% wage increase had been granted; the works projects continued. To bolster Premier de Gasperi's Government's sagging morale, word came that the U.S. would send $50 million to reimburse the Italians for lire lent to the U.S. Army...