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...already well known. On page after page, he betrays his view of Rusk as a man who is almost always silent because he almost never has anything to say-and he suggests that Kennedy felt the same way. What did Rusk think of Italy's impending apertura a sinistra (opening to the left)? "He did not have, as far as I could find out, any views," writes Schlesinger. Of Berlin? "No one quite knew where he stood." Of the Congo? "Rusk, it seemed, thought about it as little as possible...
Complicated Failure. It was to avoid just such a result, and to "isolate" the Communists, that former Premier Amintore Fanfani created the apertura a sinistra, or opening to the left, in 1962. Fanfani reasoned that by forming a coalition government between his Christian Democrats and the left-wing Socialists of Pietro Nenni, he would 1) rob the Communists of their strongest allies, and 2) give himself room to press for domestic reforms without foot-dragging by conservative parties...
...been simple deadlock. One result: an economy in serious trouble. This might seem a domestic Italian matter, but it inevitably rubbed off on the U.S., for it was the State Department which from the start pressed the Christian Democrats to make their dubious plunge into the apertura a sinistra...
...bitter Socialist Francophobes of Belgium and Italy. "The Belgian government can never accept this Spain," snapped Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, though he did not exclude bilateral trade agreements with Common Market nations. Italy's Ambassador Antonio Venturini made it plain that his government's apertura a sinistra (opening to the left) could never brook an apertura a Franco...
...This is oil and water," cracked Italy's new Foreign Minister Giuseppe Saragat. The new center-left coalition, outgrowth of the apertura a sinistra (opening to the left) which started almost two years ago, last week finally managed to form a Cabinet. In addition to the premiership, the Christian Democrats wound up with 15 of the 26 Cabinet positions, including the key ministries of Defense, Treasury, and Internal Affairs. Along with the vice premiership, the left-wing Socialists got five more posts, the only important one being the Budget Ministry. Four Cabinet jobs went to the solidly anti-Communist...