ITALY: Push & Suggest

When Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democrats won the elections last April, the West sighed with relief and turned to other concerns. Indifference was premature. Last week the Communists were renewing their campaign of sabotage.

Red Rash. When De Gasperi outlined the points of his new government's program in the Chamber of Deputies, Communist deputies shrilled a dissenting antiphon. The Premier said that he would maintain law & order; they shouted: "How many innocent workers have been murdered? " De Gasperi pledged cooperation with ERP; the Communists screamed "Imperialism! War!"†

Communists did more...

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