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Limited Violence. The parade (which was duplicated in smaller sizes at Milan, Turin, Padua and Florence) put the Communists in a box. The delicate question facing them was just how much disorder it would be wise to make in the last phase of the campaign. Some violence would help them scare timid voters from the polls, especially Italy's heavily anti-Communist women. But if Communists went too far, they might only provide an excuse for the government to use its force and postpone the elections until the ERP starts to raise Italian living standards and thus lower Communist...
Clearing the Decks. Before the week was out, as a more energetic approach began to take hold, there were other diplomatic moves. In the U.N., the U.S. took a humiliating step to reverse an inept, unworkable policy in Palestine (see above). In Turin, Foreign Minister Georges Bi-dault, as spokesman for the West, proposed the return of Trieste to Italy. That was a sound effort to prevent a Communist victory in the Italian elections next month, to draw a non-Communist Italy into the orbit of Western Union. Still further bids to the Italian voters were in the works...
...Communist Flight. U.S. Intelligence had discovered that Russia intended to come out for the return of Trieste to Italy; the State Department beat the Russians to it. France's Foreign Minister, Georges Bidault, in Turin to sign a Franco-Italian trade agreement, announced that the U.S., Great Britain and France had decided that the Free Territory of Trieste should be returned to Italian sovereignty. He also promised a drive to help Italy regain some of her war-lost colonies...
Numbers? The priest answered with a blend of military discretion and brass-hat vanity: "We have them in every important city in the north-Milan, Genoa, Turin. There we are roughly equal with the enemy. They outnumber us in Sesto San Giovanni. We outnumber them 3 to 1 at Varese . . . by 4 to 1 at Bergamo and 2 to 1 at Brescia. . . ." Milan's A.C. was not the only Catholic resistance group. In Rome (and elsewhere) Catholic youths organized and marched...
Young Palmiro learned theological disputation at Turin University, where he won a law scholarship. Later he went into Socialist journalism. In 1921, he was among the men who led the left wing's secession from the Socialist Party and founded the separate Communist Party of Italy. Five years later, when Musso lini's police were beginning to make things hot, Togliatti fled to France...