Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome's aged brown walls are heavy with garish tapestries-purple, green, red, black election posters, shrieking at the people. (If you want jobs and bread, some land to till, some peace to enjoy, vote Communist; if you believe in God, fear Communisn, hate tyranny, vote Christian Democrat.) I drove to the imposing stone building which houses the U.S. Embassy, talked about the bread and pasta from America which alone have saved Italians from starvation; of the American coal which alone has kept Italy's railways running and its blast furnaces roaring. Would not all these things...
...Reds were replying, to Christians who would listen, that they were not atheists at all. They had all but dropped the hammer & sickle as a party emblem, used pictures of Garibaldi instead. To others, they simply promised houses, land, food; many Italians could not understand why voting for such things was a sin. They had developed the egotism of misery, like the sufferers in the Inferno whom Dante described as "that caitiff choir of the angels, who were not rebellious, nor were faithful to God; but were for themselves...
...Land Reform...
...strong party which opposes the Communists can make use of their most influential offer, land reform, for fear of losing its strongest backer and wealthiest landholder in the country, the Church. Communists have been able to win power by playing on the one peasant devotion stronger than Catholicism, their love of the land. CP members all over the country have been visiting the poverty-stricken farms, asking the peasants what they need, and promising fulfillment if they vote for the Democratic Front. They insist the anyone can be a Communist and a Catholic at once...
...Western Democracy by Communism in a free election after a campaign, supported by unlimited funds with extravagant promises of colonies, seaports, recovery, liberty, and order. If the West loses because it has permitted itself to be backed into a corner by failing to support a party which offers land reform, the effect will be disastrous to the position of the U. S. in Greece, where it is in virtually the same unhappy situation, and also to the coming election in France. The strategic center of the Mediterranean area will be lost, and the loss of Western Europe will be made...