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...losses running to an estimated $40 million. When Agnelli died in 1945, it looked as if Fiat might never recover. But it was able to rebuild with the help of $46 million in U.S. loans. Then the Fiat union, a member of Communist-controlled C.G.I.L. ( Confederazione Generale Italiana di Lavoro), formed "councils of management" to run the plants, virtually took over. The councils soon found the job too tough to handle, and gradually they were forced to let brilliant, little (5 ft. i in.) Professor Vittorio Valletta, who had succeeded Agnelli, take charge...
...past six years, Italian Communism's most trusty and telling weapon has been the CGIL (Confederazione Generate Italiana del Lavoro). From 1944 to 1948 it operated almost as a monopolistic, aggressive state within the state, claiming 6,500,000 members and another 5,000,000 affiliates, using the general strike as a political bludgeon against the government. CGIL's boss was Communist Bigwig Giuseppe di Vittorio, who ran the show with a strong arm and a jealous eye for any non-Communist challenge to his power...
Italian Communists mustered an 18.9% popular vote at the last elections, have only 104 of 556 seats in the Assembly. Their strength lies in the fact that (in alliance with Pietro Nenni's Socialist Party) they control Italy's federation of trade unions, the Confederazione Generale del Lavoro. The Confederazione's Communist Secretary-General Giuseppe di Vittorio, a wiry, steel-jawed veteran of Spain's International Brigade, wields the vast strike power of the Confederazione's six million workers...
Said Rome's Lavoro Italiano, in an issue printed and distributed before censor and police could intervene: "We want peace and liberty! And both are indivisible. . . . To continue the war signifies the suicide of non-Fascist Italy in a catastrophe to which Fascism would have led us. ... To continue the war means to encourage and prepare an armed rebellion of the people...
South of Sardinia, Axis warplanes came out to meet this formidable group. Next day's Italian papers ran ecstatic accounts of the engagement. Lavoro Fascista called it "A Black Day for the British Navy." The High Command claimed hits on two battleships, an aircraft carrier, two cruisers, a destroyer and three merchantmen. Next day German bombers attacked again south of Malta and claimed hits. When the convoy had had time to get out of danger, the British denied that a single vessel had been hit. Rome admitted that British warships (possibly going out from Alexandria to meet the convoy...