Democratic Italy last week escaped the rock of Scylla only to veer toward the whirlpool of Charybdis. When the returns were in from the 8,000,000 voters in southern Italy's municipal elections, the Communists had been held in check and Rome had been saved by Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Demo-Christian bloc. But a discredited old dogma made a startling comeback and created a new danger.
Five years ago, the police were arresting the chiefs of the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (M.S.I.); last week, in elections involving 40% of Italy's voters, the Fascists and...
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