Word: saragat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disillusionment with Moscow. Last week, as the 32nd Congress of Nenni's Italian Socialist Party moved to a close, it seemed that Nenni and his followers had at last reconciled themselves to denouncing unequivocally their Communist allies. This would meet the conditions laid down by Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats for a reunification of the long-divided Italian Social ists. While owlish Pietro Nenni beamed down from the red-streamered dais of Venice's Teatro San Marco, 1,000 Congress delegates overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for a prompt merger with the Social Democrats...
...four months the chief preoccupation of Italian politicians of every stripe has been the merger negotiations between Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democratic Party and Pietro Nenni's Red-lining Socialists. By last week most of Rome's pundits agreed that unification was a foregone conclusion. All that remained was for Nenni to meet Saragat's prime condition for unification: denunciation of the "unity of action" pact that has bound Nenni's Socialists to Italy's Communist Party since...
Exactly what the new agreement implied no one (except Nenni and Togliatti) really knew, but its clear effect was to postpone the unification of Italian Socialism and the emergence of a strong, democratic left wing in Italy. Said angry Giuseppe Saragat: "The new pact reveals that those Socialist Party members who want autonomy have surrendered to Communist forces now within their party apparatus. It can mean the end of a great hope." Said Turin's La Stampa: "Another round for Togliatti...
...Positive Results." Two months ago French Socialist Senator Pierre Commin, who had known both Nenni and Saragat and shared a Pyrenean shelter with Nenni during the Nazi occupation, slipped inconspicuously into Rome. He came shortly after Nenni, in a windy polemic, had expressed horror at Moscow's revelations about Stalin, and implied that Khrushchev was not really much better. At the behest of the Socialist International (which is disturbed by the Nenni Socialists' loyalty to Moscow, the only such partnership in Western Europe), suave, strongly anti-Communist Pierre Commin did his best to persuade his two old friends...
...weeks ago, thanks to Commin's efforts, Nenni invited Saragat to his French vacation retreat at Pralognan. The 3½ hours of conversation that followed were, Saragat later declared, "extremely cordial and weighty, and ended on a positive note." In an astounding shift of position, Nenni for the first time agreed to Saragat's two crucial conditions for reunification: 1) a break with the Communists, and 2) support of a pro-Western foreign policy for Italy...