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...over a year, Italian Socialists (except a small, staunch group under Saragat which seceded in January 1947) have slavishly cooperated with the Communists. Now, with its head in the lion's mouth, the Socialist Party would have to decide whether to crawl right down the lion's throat: if it entered the front, its candidates would appear on joint Communist-Socialist ballots in the Italian national elections next April...
...Communists had had their turn, it was the antiCommunists' move. In Washington, President Harry Truman announced that, although the last U.S. troops in Italy were embarking for home, the U.S. would consider "appropriate" measures if Italy's freedom were threatened "directly or indirectly." In Rome, Giuseppe Saragat, overcoming a deep reluctance, brought his right-wing Socialists into the government and became a vice-premier. De Gasperi would now have a comfortable Assembly majority for the first time. The Communists and the left-wing Nenni Socialists had been isolated...
...Milan a tremendous crowd of about 100,000, mobilized in the Piazza del Duomo, spent seven hours wrecking Qualunquist headquarters and rightist newspaper offices, sweeping rightist newspapers from the stands and burning them in the street. They gave the show away, however, by stoning the offices of the Saragat Socialists (antiCommunist but certainly not fascist) and finally by marching against police headquarters...
...Britain had fought World War II purely for imperialist reasons. Specifically named as "imperialist toadies" and traitors to the working class were Britain's Prime Minister Attlee and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin; France's Premier Ramadier and Socialist Leader Leon Blum, Italy's Giuseppe Saragat, and Dr. Kurt Schumacher, German Social Democratic leader...
...dissident, anti-Communist Social ists under Giuseppe Saragat have made no progress since their secession (TIME, Jan. 20). The one anti-Communist party which has done relatively well is Gian, nini's nee-Fascist Common Man movement, which appeals to many disillusioned Christian Democrats. It points up the obvious but disastrous desire (which helped Hitler and Mussolini to power) to fight Communism with typical totalitarian methods...