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...undergone 20 years of Fascist rule, and just come through a devastating war, and build it up as he has. is nothing short of political genius.""It Looks Easy." Always slashing and ripping at his flanks were Togliatti's Communists and the fellow-traveling Socialists of Pietro Nenni. First they were in De Gasperi's coalition, infiltrating, sabotaging, preparing to take over a la Prague...
...Social Democrats, headed by Giuseppe Saragat, who chose democracy when Pietro Nenni led the rest of the Socialists into alliance with the Communists. Saragat has some 2,000,000 followers, mostly in the industrial north...
...extreme left: Palmiro Togliatti's Communists, Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling "Socialists" and their splinter-party allies. Strength at the last election: 31% (but believed by the experts to have gained some strength since...
...Gasperi, the only choice is to fight it out on both fronts. To a huge crowd at Rome's Basilica of Massenzio last week, De Gasperi's strong-willed Interior Minister, Mario Scelba, fired the opening barrage. "If you want Communist dictatorship," said he, "vote Communist or [Nenni] Socialist. If you want adventurers to run the government and repeat all the errors of the past, then vote for the Monarchists and MSI [Neo-Fascists]. But honest men know that democracy, with all its deficiencies, is always better than totalitarianism of either right or left...
...rest for being oldtime anti-Fascist legislators or longterm political prisoners under Fascism. This constitutional oddity has worked to the Reds' advantage. They elected only 36 Senators in 1948, but picked up a bonus of 31 more seats "by right" among ex-prisoners. Together with the fellow-traveling Nenni Socialist faction, this gave them a solid 100-man obstructionist bloc in the Senate, and golden opportunities for delaying and debauching the democratic process, as they proved in the Palm Sunday rumpus over electoral reform (TIME, April 6), when furniture flew and members grappled. Last week, the time and opportunity ripe...