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...vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies only by means of Fascist support, lifelong anti-Fascist Adone Zoli unhappily resigned (TIME, June 17). No sooner had Zoli departed than Gronchi, who also has firm ideas on domestic policy-he has long argued for admission of the Red-tinged Nenni Socialists into the government-issued a pronouncement. It jolted many of his fellow Christian Democrats to the core. Said the President: "My work is not limited to giving the country a Premier, but it is also to collaborate in the formation of the government. I only want to say that...
...Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, who controls a pivotal 19 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, found himself losing control of his Social Democratic Party to young firebrands who wanted the Social Democrats to pull out of the government and rejoin the Red-tainted Socialist Party of Stalin Prizewinner Pietro Nenni...
Saragat, a staunch antiCommunist, who is not satisfied that Nenni has really broken with Moscow, managed to resist the pressure until last week. Then, seizing on the behind-scenes maneuvers of Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi (who not long ago outraged the Segni Cabinet by proposing to send a neutralist letter to Ike), Saragat suddenly charged that within the Christian Democratic Party itself there were forces guilty of "silent hostility" to Segni's pro-Western foreign policy. "For 22 months," intoned Saragat righteously, "we Social Democrats have kept the faith. Now we must withdraw." Left with only...
Figures Talk. Staggered but still fast on his feet, Nenni immediately began to drop hints that he might abandon politics and retire to his seaside villa at Formia. Coming from the Socialist Party's biggest vote getter and the idol of its rank and file, this was a potent threat. Hastily the newly elected central committee granted Nenni's demand that it endorse his Socialist unification policy and give his supporters a majority of the seats in the party secretariat...
...amount of last-minute patchwork, however, could disguise the fact that the Communists and their front men still held the first mortgage on Pietro Nenni and his party. Said angry Giuseppe Saragat: "The voting figures speak clearly: 30% of the Socialist Party tends toward social democracy; 70% tends toward or is actually anchored to pro-Communism." As for reuniting all of Italy's Socialists, said Saragat. this would now be "enormously delayed...