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After years of discussion, Italy's apertura a sinistra ("opening to the left") last week became a risky reality. In effect, the Christian Democratic Party shed some of its right-wing allies in parliament and went into partnership with Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists, who had long been working closely with the Communists. Chief architect of the experiment is shrewd, scholarly Premier Amintore Fanfani, who believes that only through the Nenni alliance can he muster the votes needed for necessary domestic reforms (TIME, Feb. 9). But many left-wingers predict gloomily that Nenni will become a hostage...
...will include other parties. Among the likely new members: Giuseppe Saragat, leader of the right-wing Socialists, who may be Foreign Minister; Ugo La Malfa, boss of the moderately leftist Republican Party, who may be Finance Minister. Not in the Cabinet but supporting the new government will be Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists, whose support Fanfani feels he needs for Italy's "democratic development...
Amid prosperity, stubborn areas of economic depression continue, and Fanfani believes that more state action is necessary to erase them. His plans, opposed by the Liberal Party but warmly supported by Nenni's Socialists, call for heavy government investment in the poverty-stricken south, stepped-up construction of schools, roads, railways...
Political Change. Under Fanfani's plan, Nenni's Socialists would get no Cabinet seats. They would support the government in Parliament by backing measures they find agreeable, abstain on others. In the case of many needed reforms, cooperation would not be difficult, but conflict will almost certainly come over such issues as Nenni's demands for nationalization of the power industry, his neutralism in foreign policy...
...case for cautious hope: signs that Nenni would like to break out of his longstanding and smothering alliance with the Communists. He bitterly condemned Khrushchev when Russia resumed atomic testing, has criticized Moscow's absolutist methods, which he describes as a "policy of the Last Judgment." Thus, while Italy faces an opening to the left, for Nenni and his Socialists it may become an opening to the right...