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...shutout left predicted its imminent return to power, after the new Government's inevitable flop. Cried pro-Communist Socialist Pietro Nenni: "What goes out the window will come in the door." That was a clear cue for the U.S. not to let the new Government flop; it might be difficult to protect Ministers who are as inept as they are well-meaning...
Qualunquist Leader Giannini rose to protest. Communist deputies shouted: "Assassin!" Communist Carlo Farini advanced with clenched fists upon the rightist deputies. He was followed by a strong Communist detachment. Then Pietro Nenni, a follower of the party line, led a sizable Socialist task force into the fray. Inkwells hurtled. Chairs were swung. Fists landed with a satisfying thud on legislative noses. Nearly 200 deputies took part in the brawl. Centrists tried frantically to untangle the Right and the Left...
Italian Socialists were frustrated in another way. Demagogic Pietro Nenni, head of the Socialist Party, is caught in the Communist line, though he still claims to be independent. To a U.S. newsman he explained last week: "The Communists are here. I would be very happy if they weren't, or if we had a Communist Party the size of yours in the U.S. That just isn't the situation, so we have to work along with them." Nenni's own followers have taken to calling themselves "Nenni Communists...
Italians feel even more strongly. Said Socialist Pietro Nenni last week: "We haven't any colonies nor navy nor army nor territorial ambitions. We are today's arch-isolationists." However, unlike old-line U.S. isolationists, Europeans could not afford to say "Let them fight it out among themselves." Even a devout Communist forgot himself sufficiently to tell a TIME correspondent last week: "A conflict between you and Russia would be disaster for Italy. We'd be occupied by both of you, first by the Cossacks, then by Negroes...
...Togliatti had a second motive. This had been a supreme opportunity to display himself as arbiter of Assembly decisions. The Kremlin's legate had proved to De Gasperi and the Christian Democrats that-alone-they could not carry off one of their most cherished objectives. Socialist Pietro Nenni, after a year of playing footie with the Communists, now knew that Togliatti could give him a splintering kick in the shins at will. If Nenni and his Socialists were ever to walk again, they might have to make peace with the disaffected Socialists of Giuseppe Saragat in a last, desperate...