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...GOVERNMENT." Correspondent Stevens cut in: "What about evolution in Italy since you had your republican revolution?" At this point, wrote Stevens, "the President pensively removed the heavy tortoise-shell glasses that usually hide his expression, and smiled a sly Tuscan smile (every Tuscan has some Machiavelli in him and Signor Gronchi rather more than his share). 'I was the first to advocate a so-called opening to the left,' he answered, 'and I'm still in favor...
...from the Communists, Signor Gronchi replied, for they bow to Moscow's directives. But the Red Socialists of Pietro Nenni are another matter. Though allied with the Communists, Gronchi maintained, they are firm believers in personal freedom and democracy, and differ with the Communists on these points...
...remarked," said Stevens, "that in that case it was rather strange neither Signor Nenni nor any other spokesman for the Italian Socialist Party had ever spoken in disagreement with their Communist allies on such crucial questions. Signor Gronchi said that Signor Nenni was afraid to express his feelings openly lest it precipitate an open break with the Communists, which might split his own party...
...good or ill, Signor Gronchi's views are sure to exert more and more weight on Italian policy at home and abroad in the next several years. This veteran politician and spokesman for the Christian Democratic left, whom the late Alcide de Gasperi deeply mistrusted, refuses to be a ceremonial figurehead of state. Despite constitutional limitations, he has jockeyed himself into a position where, as President, he can make or break Premiers almost if not quite in the manner of the absolute monarch...
...visit's end, I inquired whether Signor Gronchi really intended repeating everything he told me to Mr. Eisenhower. All that and more, he answered, adding 'I believe in frankness...