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Whether Segni chooses Moro or sticks with Fanfani, the premiership will probably be no more than a caretaker's position for the next two months. For not until mid-July will Nenni's Socialists hold their annual convention and decide whether or not to stick with the Christian Democrats and keep the center-left alliance alive...
...fruit of our mistakes and not of the superiority of Communist ideals." Scelba and others of the center and right strongly oppose a continuance of the apertura a sinistra, the so-called opening to the left, initiated last year by Fanfani when he formed his alliance with Pietro Nenni's Socialists. Trouble is, no other alliance seems feasible. For the Christian Democrats, a coalition with the right-wing Monarchists and neo-Fascists is unthinkable. "Given the parliamentary situation and the prevalent trends among the party," lamented Milan's Corriere della Sera, "no solution is possible other than...
...part, the Communist showing was due to Red defections from Pietro Nenni's sharply divided Socialists, the left-wing crowd that had thrown its lot with Fanfani. And in part it was due to Pope John XXIII, who had given a modicum of approval to the far left with his Pacem in Terris encyclical, and with his warm welcome to the Vatican last March for Nikita Khrushchev's visiting son-in-law, Aleksei Adzhubei...
Mixed Blessing. The deal has given Fanfani the necessary majority to introduce a long list of economic and social reforms; it also provides the opportunity for isolating the Reds by finally breaking their hold on Pietro Nenni's Socialists...
...both of which are strongly opposed by large and small businessmen; perhaps significantly, Liberal Party Leader Giovanni Malagodi, an economic conservative who sharply criticizes Fanfani's flirtation with the left, has been drawing large and enthusiastic crowds. Another anxiety created by the center-left coalition is that Neutralist Nenni will weaken Italy's ties to the Atlantic alliance. These fears could cost Fanfani's Christian Democrats as many as 1,000,000 votes...