Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Limited Violence. The parade (which was duplicated in smaller sizes at Milan, Turin, Padua and Florence) put the Communists in a box. The delicate question facing them was just how much disorder it would be wise to make in the last phase of the campaign. Some violence would help them scare timid voters from the polls, especially Italy's heavily anti-Communist women. But if Communists went too far, they might only provide an excuse for the government to use its force and postpone the elections until the ERP starts to raise Italian living standards and thus lower Communist...
...Limited Help. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, campaigning (by airplane) up & down Italy, left no doubt that Rome's show of force was no empty gesture. With unexpected vigor, he exhorted Italians not to let themselves be scared away from the polls by Communist rough stuff. His theme: either all will vote freely, or none will vote at all. Shivering in a chill spring wind that swept across the ruins of Monte Cassino, he cried: "Form a bulwark! . . . Defend Italy. . . . Vote for Italy. . . ." In Sardinia, before stocking-capped old peasants and natty coal miners fresh from their showers, he said...
...Frontier guards had to squash the impromptu invasion. Customs officials discovered a cargo of 8,000 guns, 4,000 cases of ammunition and one Communist agitator aboard a ship from Yugoslavia. On the same day, the sooth U.S. relief ship arrived. Il Giornale d'ltalia headlined the moral: "HELP FOR ITALY. FROM THE U.S., GRAIN AND COAL. FROM YUGOSLAVIA, ARMS AND AMMUNITION...
...would ask World Bank loans for Latin America, and make fresh funds available for new loans from the Export-Import Bank. But the kind of economic development Latin America needed, he said, was simply beyond the U.S. Government's capacity. His suggestion for latinos: invite private capital to help. To show that this need not mean economic bondage, he cited the use the U.S. made of foreign capital in its i gth Century industrialization...