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...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...
...gulf that separated the two men was immense; for the past nine years Saragat's party has been supporting the pro-Western Christian Democratic coalition; for the past nine years the Nenni Socialists have never voted contrary to Moscow on any major issue...
...effective alternative to the Christian Democratic Party. The Socialist split has frustrated all Italian political life, and the tempting visions of the power that could be exercised by a single, strong Socialist Party has become almost an obsession with Italian Social ists, whether loyal to Nenni or Saragat...
...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...