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...center Labor Party, led by rugged, rocklike Einar Gerhardsen, returned to power with 77 seats in the 150-seat Storting. With a handful of results still to come, Labor was sure of an absolute majority for its intensified prewar program of a planned economy and socialized public utilities. The rightist and center parties lost ground. Communists scored the biggest gain: from nil to ten seats...
...House of Commons, the Tories were full of fight. The "Young Tory" reformers, none too effective in their Party's heyday, would be alert for any chance to prove that rightist reason could match leftist ardor. But Prime Minister Clement Attlee, confronting his first Parliament, would keep a closer eye on the leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, ex-Prime Minister Winston Churchill...
...days later Romans were startled again. Stooped, sleepy-eyed Ferruccio Parri, Italy's middle-of-the-road Premier, had issued an extraordinary statement: there was no foundation to rumors of a rightist plot aimed at overthrowing his three-month-old compromise Government...
...Romans knew better. The plot had been laid, but had not been hatched because too many knew about it. Clearly, Premier Parri had issued his statement to prevent the rumors of a rightist uprising from becoming the excuse for a leftist outbreak...
Communism has its opposition. The rightist Partito Democratico Italiano has arms, and money to buy more. The Christian Democratic Party (heavily Catholic) is persistently reported to have a well-armed militia...