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...over Europe. "This is a great achievement," said French Socialist Senator Pierre Commin, the man who persuaded Nenni and Saragat to begin their merger negotiations (TIME. Sept. 10). Britain's Nye Bevan was present and beaming. "A great day for Italian Socialism," glowed Social Democratic Party Secretary Matteo Matteotti...
...nearly a decade Italian Socialists have been living with the bitter aftermath of the day in January 1947 when a lean, jut-jawed young intellectual bearing an honored name rose to address a party congress in the Great Hall of Rome University. The speaker was Matteo Matteotti. His father was Socialist Leader Giacomo Matteotti, modern Italy's No. 1 political martyr...
...Young Matteo Matteotti, bone-bred Socialist that he was, was nonetheless outraged by the alliance which Socialist Party Leader Pietro Nenni had just made with the Communists. Sadly, Matteotti charged Nenni with spreading "fear and terrorism" in the party. Then, amidst cries of "degenerate son," he stalked out to help organize a splinter group, which eventually became the anti-Communist Social Democratic Party...
...years that followed, Nenni and Matteotti brushed past each other in the halls of the Italian Parliament without speaking. Last week, in the same Rome University building in which the 1947 split occurred, wily, aging (65) Pietro Nenni and 35-year-old Matteo Matteotti, now secretary of the Social Democratic Party, were once again in conversation...
...party now has a clear-cut majority. The Christian Democrats were still spurning Nenni's aid, but Nenni thought that the Social Democrats (now one of three junior partners in the Christian Democratic coalition) might be willing to accept his tainted help. He addressed a letter to "Caro Matteo...