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Decisive Break. Responsible for the change was Socialist Party Leader Pietro Nenni, a longtime fellow traveler who split with the Reds in Parliament after Nikita Khrushchev's revelations about Stalin in 1956. But the split was far from committing his entire party. Last week at a three-day meeting of the Socialist Party's Central Committee Nenni proposed to make the break decisive. He offered to open negotiations with the government for a five-year joint legislative program which, if the Fanfani government buys it, will probably bring the Socialists into the government after next spring...
...whole thing is simply a political payoff to the Socialists, who are not in the government but whose 88 votes in Parliament Fanfani needs to keep his coalition in office. The Socialists demanded nationalized power because it is part of their political dogma and because Pietro Nenni wants to prove to his own left wing and to the Communists that he is not being taken into camp by the bourgeoisie. Meanwhile. the things that Italy really needs -schools, roads, tax reform - remain vague promises...
Dreams of Solidarity. The big question about the apertura is whether it will be able to pull the Socialists away from their longstanding alliance with the Communists. Nenni apparently now wants this, but his formidable powers of persuasion are currently handicapped: he is still recuperating from a near fatal fall in a ravine this summer. Many of his party comrades are hypnotized by the idea of "working-class solidarity." Today, Socialists and Communists jointly run numerous local governments and agricultural cooperatives that are difficult to unscramble...
...night last week, after five hours of debate, the Cabinet of Christian Democratic Premier Amintore Fanfani announced plans to nationalize Italy's electric power industry. This was part of the price that Fanfani had agreed to pay for the parliamentary support of powerful fellow-traveling Socialist Pietro Nenni. Nenni, who frankly regards this as a step toward the end of free enterprise in Italy, has scored a real coup: Italy's power industry has more than doubled its output in the last decade (to 60 billion kilowatt-hours last year) and has prospered despite the fact that...
...power companies, which will be pressured by the government to spend the cash in southern Italy, plan to continue the diversification that they have foresightedly been undertaking for the past decade. The Edison Group, which is Italy's biggest utility and one of Nenni's favorite punching bags, has already spread into dozens of industries from steel to synthetic fibers. But even the fat compensation promised the companies is scant solace to many Italian businessmen, who fear that this is only the beginning of further government assaults on private enterprise. Cried Alberto Ferioli, deputy secretary of the business...