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Politics in the Oil. Because Mattei was a national hero, Fanfani had to give the appearance of preserving his policies. As usual, there was plenty of politics mixed in the oil. E.N.I, in its freewheeling way is much admired by the Nenni Socialists, whose displeasure could bring down Fanfani's precariously balanced Cabinet. Many Italian politicos are beholden to E.N.I., which under Mattei practiced a deft and munificent nonpartisanship. E.N.I, was one of the largest contributors to Fanfani's Christian-Democratic Party, gave generously to other political parties. Italian politicians who could find time to write reports...
...West European most pained by the Cuban crisis was Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani. whose political alliance with Pietro Nenni's Socialists is already strained by membership in NATO, which Nenni dislikes. To get involved in Cuba could be death to his center-left coalition regime; so Fanfani confined his comments on the U.S. action to such safe words as, "Italy judges as positive that, in a moment when loud alarms are sounded, the U.S. has requested the United Nations to intervene in order that the causes of this alarm might be eliminated...
...Although Nenni carefully avoided spelling out the specifics of his program, it was believed that the Socialists would settle for gradual social and economic reforms that the other parties had already agreed on. More important, the Socialists were ready to call it quits on demands for more nationalization. The whole deal, warned Nenni, depends on a single condition: the breakup of the local political pacts with the Reds in the proposed regional governments. Said Nenni: "A struggle for power in which Socialists associate themselves with Communists is impossible...
Petty Insult. Nenni's plan infuriated the fellow travelers in his party's high command. "A scandal,'' cried one. Shouted another: "For a few corrections in the capitalist system, they are offering the breakup of the workers' movement." But Nenni's proposal carried...
Angrily, Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti called Nenni's program a "serious and grave" threat "to isolate not the Communist Party, but the whole working class." As further proof of their injury, the Reds turned to petty insult, stopped calling Nenni "Comrade," a salutation they have used since World...