Word: nenni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There are risks and the risks are great," warned left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni. We must accept "the margin of risk," declared Christian Democratic Chief Aldo Moro. The atmosphere plainly was more suspicious than auspicious for the new Italian government. After months of dickering, while the nation marked time under a caretaker Cabinet, the Christian Democrats finally were ready to conclude their marriage of convenience-or perhaps inconvenience-with Nenni's left-wing Socialists. It was the first time in 16 years that a doctrinaire Marxist party would share power in any major West European Cabinet...
...Going Ahead." Biggest obstacle had been the divisions inside Nenni's own party, whose warring factions range from halfhearted supporters of the Atlantic Alliance to faithful followers of the Communist Party. At the last minute, the pro-Reds threatened to rebel against the proposed coalition with the "capitalists," but Nenni declared flatly: "The door is open. You can go through it with me or not. I'm going ahead." His central committee backed him up by a 59-to-40 vote...
Spurred on by the Kennedy assassination-both Nenni and Moro feared that President Johnson might not be as sympathetic to the "opening to the left" -the negotiators then hammered out an 8,000-word program of cooperation that was just vague enough so that either party, or any faction, could interpret it as desired. On foreign policy, the Socialists balked at pledging "fidelity" to NATO but settled for "loyalty" to the Atlantic Alliance and agreement to continue discussions with the U.S. over Italian participation in MLF, the proposed fleet of Polaris-equipped surface ships. In return for accepting anti-Communist...
...Communists love the idea. They are saying reassuringly that they would not make France pull out of the Common Market or NATO as the price of "workers' unity." That is the same sweet line the Communists are taking in Italy, where the Reds' longtime allies, the leftist Nenni Socialists, are on the verge of entering the government...
...position somewhat strengthened by the Sicily results, Aldo Moro will begin trying to put together a new coalition Cabinet based on the alliance between the Christian Democrats and the Nenni Socialists. But even if he can thus continue the "opening to left," Moro's-and Italy's-troubles will only be beginning...