At 10 o'clock one morning last week, Italy's Communists, fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists and their strange allies, the monarcho-fascists, opened their last-ditch battle against Premier Alcide de Gasperi's electoral reform bill. Not until 76 hectic hours later did the battle end. The chamber of the Italian Senate by then was a shambles of broken chairs, torn books and blood spatters; at least a dozen wounded Senators and Cabinet Ministers stumbled about in the wreckage. But the unholy alliance had lost and refused even to cast its votes. The final vote: 174 to 0....
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