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...NATO. Gronchi argues that it was "conceived in the narrow image of the American view, which considers resistance to Communism solely in military terms," and the alliance soon will atrophy unless it concentrates on economic and technical...
...Correspondent Stevens cut in: "What about evolution in Italy since you had your republican revolution?" At this point, wrote Stevens, "the President pensively removed the heavy tortoise-shell glasses that usually hide his expression, and smiled a sly Tuscan smile (every Tuscan has some Machiavelli in him and Signor Gronchi rather more than his share). 'I was the first to advocate a so-called opening to the left,' he answered, 'and I'm still in favor...
...Gronchi, a handsome, greying man of 68 who was chosen President last spring, pleasantly explained to Stevens how he would go about arranging the "opening to the left." First he would ditch the Christian Democrats' small but stout allies, the Liberals (the nearest Italian equivalent to a free-enterprise party). They are a good, democratic right-wing group, Gronchi conceded, but there is no place for them in the "progressivist government" he envisages for Italy. Dropping them would leave the Christian Democrats in need of votes to command a majority, and Stevens asked where they would come from...
...from the Communists, Signor Gronchi replied, for they bow to Moscow's directives. But the Red Socialists of Pietro Nenni are another matter. Though allied with the Communists, Gronchi maintained, they are firm believers in personal freedom and democracy, and differ with the Communists on these points...
...remarked," said Stevens, "that in that case it was rather strange neither Signor Nenni nor any other spokesman for the Italian Socialist Party had ever spoken in disagreement with their Communist allies on such crucial questions. Signor Gronchi said that Signor Nenni was afraid to express his feelings openly lest it precipitate an open break with the Communists, which might split his own party...