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Italy was threatened with nothing of the sort. The fact was that Italy's Communist Party had made a major effort to topple the Tambroni government, had succeeded only in producing a series of bloody riots up and down Italy that unhappily cost eleven lives, but left the vast mass of Italy's citizens indifferent and even outraged...
...began when the small neo-Fascist party scheduled a party congress in Genoa. The Communists, who have been chafing under the political ostracism they have suffered of recent years, saw a splendid opportunity to take advantage of the smoldering resentment many Italians felt when Fernando Tambroni accepted the support of the 24 neo-Fascist Deputies to form his government. As the neo-Fascists assembled, a gang of Red-led picketers charged into the Piazza de Ferrari. Genoa's celere (riot police) were waiting for them. They circled around the rioters in jeeps like Indians around a wagon train, clipping...
Next day the Reds called for a nationwide general strike. But the cry went largely unheeded, even by many of the Communist-dominated unions. Premier Tambroni turned down a resolution calling for a 15-day truce between the rioting factions. Argued Tambroni: established governments maintaining law and order do not make truces with the forces of violence...
Though Italian Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti mustered thousands of mourners at the funeral of the five Communists killed in Reggio Emilia, the riots had served to rally non-Communists temporarily to the support of the Tambroni government. But there was little rejoicing among liberal Italians, who recognized the neo-Fascists as a constant source of similar trouble for the government. Wrote Pundit Enrico Mattei: "The Tambroni government cannot go while there is violence. But when the violence ends, let it go in favor of a more representative government stronger and better equipped to cope with sedition...
Last week as pressing business piled up, Tambroni returned to win a 128-110 majority in the Senate. "My government will be transitory," he said. Tambroni's Cabinet is still dependent on neo-Fascists in the Assembly, but has pledged to confine itself to housekeeping. Supported by an expanding economy, it will concentrate on getting a budget passed, keep the ministries manned through the summer of Rome's Olympic Games...