Italy last week was the new sick man of Europe, and growing daily sicker. Its No. 1 Socialist, Pietro Nenni, voiced the nation's anguish in an anguished plea: "The Allied Control Commission should get out, leave us Italians to administer our misery alone."
Good Intentions. In the fourth month of Rome's occupation, Italians were hungry, dirty, ragged and undecided. Premier Ivanoe Bonomi's six-party government was bumblingly, quarrelsomely impotent, unable even to impose order. It had no system of communication with the provinces. It lacked even the cars and gasoline to send its members for...
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