Italian Political Crisis
Montana, Vanni B.
Nitions muRt be convened promptly at 8»n Francisco or elsewhere. To that end, the energies of both scientists and politicians must be directed now, from this eay forth, before the atomic whirlwind...
...At present, transportation in Italy is chaotic and only Communists and monarchists have been able to travel at will, organizing and propagandizing...
...The trend is illustrated by the crisis in the Italian Socialist Party which reached an acute form at the national conference held in (asse from July 29 to August 1. 1 am happy to report the news that ¦vy old comrade lgnazio Silone has abandoned the futile effort to win Pietro Nenni over to his side, and has resumed his open opposition to the totalitarian infiltration o...
...Nenni opposes a convention of the Socialists before the elections because he wants no clear differ-rotation of those who are truly democratic and those who parade as Socialists hut are actually Communists...
...He is a skieVful and intelligent chapion of humanistic, democratic Socialism against the totalitarian ideology and methods of the Communists, who fear him mote than anyone in Italy...
...t · To Italian Socialists the name of Giuseppe Faravelli means everything...
...This, I think, is,the true mrining of the atomic apocalypse...
...The worst thing that the American Government has done is to fail to train adequate numbers of physicists, chemists, and engineers during the past live years...
...Nutritional science and feed technology have placed in our hands new means of global feeding, ••ase of which, like food yeaRt, are •tercely leas extraordinary than the discoveries of the nuclear physicists...
...Or example, we must stop, today, the ghastly pretense that Kurope must starve this winter—that there is no »*tp for it...
...Professor of Chemistry...
...We feared for months that Faravelli Viarl been killed...
...Vaanevar Bush* plan for utilizing scientists by whsl amounts to a continuation of the O.S.R.D...
...With the help of Sandro Pertinl he maneuvered to confuse the issue, and shifted his position—urging the postponement of...
...He will give the democratic wing of the Socialist Party the leadership and spirit needed to defeat the Nenni-Togliatti maneuvers...
...it was the first open challenge to the Nenni leadership...
...New it is clear that Silone, and to tone degree Modigliani, thought that tbey were too weak to fight the pro-Cosununist leadership of Nenni...
...Italian Political Crisis Modigliani, Silone, Faravelli Open Fight Against Totalitarian Trend By Vanni B. Montana THE latest developments in Italian politics give new hope that a government free from totalitarian con-del will emerge from chaos...
...regardless of organization, it lakes trained scientists to do research...
...We shall need to rethink our whole technology with a few women and physically defective men working with us oldtimers...
...By postponing the fusion of the two parties until after the elections to the Constituent Assembly, Nenni and Togliatti believe they will be able to elect pro-Communist Socialists to that body and dominate it...
...HENRY I. HASS...
...is a time for prayer...
...And the poor, freed of fear and of envy, must be like lions in Ihe streets...
...Aa I foresaw, the liberatio of Northern Italy helped Nenni lo, lighten his grip open the party, for the Intrigue of foreign agents had given the Communists and pro-Communist Socialists control over the- Partisans and other Underground forces in Bologna, Turin, Milan and other'cities...
...With all his ability as an orator, writer, and strategist, he launched his policy of close collaboration with the Communists, with amalgamation the final aim...
...Modigliani proposed that elections for the Constituent Assembly be postponed fiom the coming fall to next spring, so that they can be genuinely democratic...
...is an important and desirable step which deserves support bul...
...If we fail to nee these resources now, . "e are fools and criminals...
...If you hare any opportunity at all to influence public opinion, speak out against the continuation of the selective service policy of putting what bricht young men «e have with the rest to police Europe and Japan while every other country is trying to train them for the new atomic era...
...Socialism is so deeply rooted in Italian political life that a democratic Italy is inconceivable without a strong, independent Socialist movement dedicated to liberty...
...However, this defeat is really a prelude to th...
...To that end, the energies of both scientists and politicians must be directed now, from this eay forth, before the atomic whirlwind •f the next war is enabled to gather and form its descending spiral...
...Their new strategy is based upon control from the top, and they want no democratic expression of the will of the Socialist rank-and-file...
...Arrested by the Vichy police In France, he was deported to Italy, where he was sentenced to 30 years in jail...
...The Modigliani-Faravelli-Silone-Saragat group, opposed to fusion with the Communists, at present supports the ides of unity of action only on specific is3ues...
...They did not know how strong they were...
...The lich must give all tbey have to Ihe poor...
...The ?· ord can serve us no more...
...Greatness is ours, and peace and fiee-dom if we choose them...
...Nenni and Togliatti oppose Modigliani'* proposal because they fear that their influence will wane...
...They were defeated, receiving about 30 percent of the votes of the delegates...
...the Socialist Party...
...Ever since 1919, Moscow has spent a great amount of money and energy to split, destroy or capture the Socialist Party in Italy...
...Postponement of the elections until conditions have improved will ensure freer expression of the will of the Italian people...
...battle for democracy versus totalitarianism in the Italian Socialist Party...
...The old ocean of scarcity has spewed us forth and we can't go back...
...The fable of the gooae and the goldei egg is destined to be forgotten...
...Things which were not »orth considering last year beraume of high energy requirements will be tomorrow's processes...
...He led the Socialist Underground for years before the war...
...If Ihe foreign ministers now meeting in London do not give Italy a just peace treaty now instead of postponing it an Russia desires, they will be aiding the Italian Communists...
...and in the meantime the Socialists w(ll have time to hold their long-awaited national .convention instead of conferences of leaders such as the one recently held in Rome...
...When Southern Italy was liberated, Nenni'« henchmen, such as Oreste Liz-zadri (Longobardi), were enabled lo go fiom Home to Naples and install I hem-selves at the helm of the Socialist Party, while leaders like Modigliani, Silone, Faravelli (and Sigfride Ciccotti in South America) were isolated from the Italian scene...
...The rank-and-file of the party was only awaiting the return of the two great democratic Socialist leaders and a signal from them to regenerate their party and purge it of totalitarian poison...
...It is with great happiness that we learn of his presence at the Rome conference...
...the merger "to a more appropriate time," but approving it in principle...
...I feel tais to be my duty because I did not allow personal friendship to silence my ¦ eriticsim of Silone while he was appeasing, Nenni during the first few months after his return to Switzerland...
...The appeasement of Nenni and the other I'oemiini-ts and fellow-travelers who had infiltrated the Socialist Party only enabled them to further entrench themselves and increase their influence in the party and in the trade unions...
...SCIENCE AND THE ATOMIC AGE We are rapidly moving into an age in which human beings will be limited by their own stupidity or bigotry or conservatism or timidity but nof by lack of energy...
...To that end ** must mobilize and freely use all science and all technolojy...
...Fature generations will speak of the government which won a war with two atomic bombs created by the scientists and prevented Ihe universities from training more scientists to take the place of ? hose who gave years of their life to help win the war...
...This, you say, Is too visionary ? On I be contrary, assuming that we mean to continue our inhabitation pf this planet, it is the alternatives that are visionary— the sober, practical and utterly ridiculous alternatives of bigger and better atomic bomb« than those of our "enemies," or perhaps deeper and better lighted caves...
...The victory of the British Labor Party, which has had' repercussions throughout Kurope', will encourage them...
...On the eve of the recent Socialist conference in Rome, Nenni was aware that he was facing defeat on the question ef amalgamation of the Socialists and Communists into one party of the workers...
...Purdue university...
...The »alt of our customary commonsense has lost its savor...
...Thus, with the liberation of Rome, Nenni had made himself the undisputed master of the Socialist movement...
...But we must choose...
...Before man ran walk upright into the new'world he must first go upon his knees...
Vol. 28 • September 1945 • No. 37
