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...cold political style are against him. A 6% jump in living costs last year touched off a prolonged wave of strikes by industrial and whitecollar workers; fortnight ago, 5,000,000 workers quit their jobs in a one-day general walkout. Fanfani's year-old partnership with Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists, the apertura a sinistra (opening to the left), has sharply divided the Premier's own Christian Democratic Party; the coalition's major legislative accomplishment-the needless and expensive nationalization of the electrical industry, which was Nenni's price for collaboration -has turned...
Still, Fanfani figures to stay on top. Of the six nations in the Common Market, Italy's estimated 6% growth rate this year is the highest; at about 1,000,000, unemployment is half the 1956 level. Many Italians fear that flirtation with that old Stalin Prizewinner Pietro Nenni will eventually lead Italy down the path to neutralism. But so far, Nenni has pulled to the right in international affairs, away from his longtime Communist allies. He has even halfheartedly endorsed a NATO nuclear force. Nenni was probably saved a little Socialistic embarrassment when the U.S. recently agreed...
Ever since Premier Amintore Fanfani teamed up with Pietro Nenni's Socialists almost a year ago to form Italy's apertura a sinistra ("opening to the left"), the uneasy alliance has been clouded by a single issue: Nenni's demand for the creation of 15 regional administrations that he figures will boost his party's grass-roots support. Fanfani agreed to pay Nenni's price because he needed the Socialists' 88 votes in the Chamber of Deputies in order to stay in power, but he stalled on enacting the scheme just the same...
Fanfani feared that the Socialists would sign local electoral agreements with Communists and thereby convert the new regions into leftist strongholds. Even after Nenni pledged not to cooperate with the Reds, many of Fanfani's Christian Democrats remained skeptical of his promise. With Nenni demanding quick action on the regional plan, the looming alternative was compromise or collapse of the coalition...
...Socialists grumbled bitterly, but Nenni urged them to bide their time. "If there's going to be a government crisis," he told a meeting of his party's central committee, "it's not going to be caused by us." Nenni has his eye on a Cabinet post in a new government; causing a crisis at the moment would be irresponsible, for Fanfani this week goes off to visit John F. Kennedy, and in a fortnight Harold Macmillan arrives in Rome. Fellow travelers in the Socialist high command were willing, even anxious, to topple the government...