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...Rome's Ciampino Airport, Italy's Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat and nearly i ,000 people crowded around Pan American Flight 156 from New York to honor an Italian returning forever home. From the plane was borne a 990-lb., copper-lined coffin, and that night, in a railway baggage car, the remains of Arturo Toscanini were taken north to Milan...
...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...
...Venice resolution brought cries of delight from Socialists all over Europe. "This is a great achievement," said French Socialist Senator Pierre Commin, the man who persuaded Nenni and Saragat to begin their merger negotiations (TIME. Sept. 10). Britain's Nye Bevan was present and beaming. "A great day for Italian Socialism," glowed Social Democratic Party Secretary Matteo Matteotti...
...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...
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...