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...last May's parliamentary elections knew that they were voting for Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti, but that he had no chance of becoming Premier. And a vote for the Red-lining-left-wing Socialists was just as clearly a vote for the party's leader, Pietro Nenni. But the Christian Democrats, the nation's biggest party, campaigned with no face except the postered memory of their late great postwar statesman Alcide de Gasperi, and the promise of "progress without adventure" along the established line of the party's pro-Western, middle-road record...
...most passionate outbursts, because they came from those who still wanted to believe in a U.S.S.R. change of heart, occurred among the neutralist powers and Europe's left-wing fringe. Avanti, organ of Pietro Nenni's red-tinged Italian Socialist Party, proclaimed that the executions "bring us back in full bloom" to the era of Stalinism. Burma's Premier U Nu called them "a horrible act." The Indonesian Socialist daily Pedoman drew a local moral: "We cannot fool around with the idea of cooperation with the Reds." In India, where Nehru's equivocation blunted the impact...
...Christian Democrats, in a nation 99% Catholic, were dogged by Italy's old anticlericalism, and by lack of a forceful, unifying leader such as Germany's Christian Democrats have in Konrad Adenauer. Two years after Hungary, the Communists and fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists continued to poll 36.7% of the vote, a slight increase over last time. Results in the Chamber of Deputies...
...Nenni Socialists...
Best guess of Italy's political pundits was that crafty Pietro Nenni, impressed by recent Red gains in local elections, was taking a calculated risk that an alliance with the Communists would strengthen his party's prospects in Italy's forthcoming general election. Whatever his motives, the turnabout planted what Nenni himself once called "a heavy tombstone" on the last lingering hope that Nenni would join the Social Democrats to give Italy a strong anti-Communist left...