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...Gasperi was in fact defeated by the refusal of dissident Socialist Giuseppe Saragat to join his new Cabinet. Saragat had refused because he knew that gaining cabinet posts or parliamentary seats would be futile unless anti-Communists found a way to reduce the power which the Communists derived from control of labor unions...
...Saragat, in refusing to join De Gasperi's Government, had decided to tackle the Communist position at its labor union roots. His group, planning to contest union elections during the next few months, did not want to be tagged as conservatives. The Communists saw the danger and fought him tooth & nail. Recently, when Alessandro Cappelletti, burly head of the Land Workers' Union, openly came out for Saragat, the Communists thew him bodily out of his office, later "legalizing" the act by also voting him out of office...
Then it was time for Giuseppe Saragat, sometimes called the Leon Blum of Italy, and Nenni's bitterest enemy. He had come to secede. In a strong, clear voice he deplored "this moment of grief." He said: "Our party has fallen into the hands of men who no longer believe in its historical function as an independent party. If we had one hope in a thousand that we could redirect the present Socialist Party towards its true role, we would remain. This hope we do not have. We must give the laboring masses a true Socialist Party which...
...Later, Saragat's and Matteotti's rebels joined forces in an "Anti-Congress," held in the magnificent, 17th Century Palazzo Barberini (former residence of U.S. Ambassador Alexander C. Kirk). The most important catch of the Nenni Socialists was Novelist Ignazio Silone (Bread and Wine), who has long opposed fusion with the Communists, but apparently could not bring him,self to split with his old party. Saragat succinctly summed up his own reasons for splitting: "I would infinitely prefer to side with our Socialist Comrade Attlee than with Comrade Tito." Said Nenni: "What has happened is an episode...
...after a furious split, had rejected last April. But an agreement calling for a vigorous nationalization program and the conquest of power by the working classes would probably pry the Socialists loose from their coalition with Premier Alcide de Gasperi's moderate Christian Democrats. Right-wing Socialist Giuseppe Saragat, who had led the fight against fusion, went along witH the new pact and read into it a portentous international significance. He said...