Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meaning of such figures could be pressed too far. For instance, the fact that only 11% of Italians replying to the question were against Western Union did not mean that the Reds were going to be snowed under in the April 18 elections. Only slightly more than half of the Italian electorate has heard about Western Union; most who have are in the upper-and middle-income groups. Moreover, it has been made no great issue in the Italian election campaign. Yet the survey does show, at the very least, that a popular basis for closer union exists today...
...theoretically thorny questions might not have to be answered for a while. Or time might make them easier to answer. Said a Frenchman, in angry pessimism: "As things are now, a Russian army could be in Paris within eight days. . . . What really counts, besides the Marshall Plan, are the Italian elections...
THAT COULD BE SAID, and said again; yet nobody could keep his mind on the Marshall Plan and the Italian elections all the time. There were other preoccupying concerns...
...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 voting strength...
...delegation promptly recovered the State Department's fumble. It cabled the department and Communist Magil got his passport. (He threatened to make another fuss at Geneva unless another Worker reporter got a passport to cover the Italian election April...