European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Communists threaten to use Force to put their ideas into effect Mowe in Sci Del i m Forth 11y nil i om1m ohm even before the Marshall tog is considered the most intelligent of Western Europe com had had to defend and explain unpopular russian moves to his country for when Russia twice vetoed Italy Entrance into the United he had to come up with some sort of he Italy is yet ready but this sort of thing takes a Deal of explaining to a people As sensitive As the Togliatti attempted to to the occasion in discrediting the Marshall this he will find its Way generally Only to a group of speculators and help interests and not the welfare of the that didst go Over so he tried another Aid cannot be converted into increased we Are our Only but Hes still difficult to Tell ill Clad with fond memories of american that the should refuse even Nenni came out for the mar shall he qualified his approval though by calling for repayment in ports so As to safeguard Italy inde had to stand up and be counted on their attitude toward the proposal of the american Secretary of de Gasperi immediately endorsed Bacciardi spoke for the re we italians Are always Rich today Weare completely dependent on if we dont take part were condemned t6 die he went further and said that the communists must be left government because they follow an International policy of opposition to the Marshall Togliatti countered with the charge Attiat Bacciardi who had fought Side him in the Spanish civil War and against Mussolini would be used by de Gasperi to suppress the communist Sara Gat answered for the new cab inet by calling for intelligent opposition through social Reform rather than hysterical he thought the Marshall plan could help and prom ised to defend it while fighting against civil War and Impe Frig any political Drift to the As far As the third Monist strength in organized labor was Sara gats statement meant his italian worker social is party received Only per cent in the Trade Union voting of the Cetl general confederation of with the farm workers his Power is even they gave his party votes out of a membership of on the other communist candidates won 62 per cent of the votes and the Nenny quite Friendly to the polled 26 per the Christian democrats could Only Muster 9 per the traditionally conservative farm Affili ated with the per cent communist control Ove labor has been threatened by an Active revolt within led by Chulio Christian Democrat Secretary of the the communists and the Vennt aware of the have warned against a labor recently they issued a communique calling on All workers to fight to safeguard and consolidate labor the fourth Strong Uganda to have imitators who rapidly approached the communists in ability and these wore the Christian one of their members was killed in reelection they organised a mass funeral which equated any of the the communists the doubling of the cd vote in the Rome elections was due to this As much As to any other one con political observers that extreme left lost at least in per cent of their voters in the balloting because of the bad timing of the announcement of the coh inform organisation just a week left Wing demonstrators wore accused of using violence and this too no Good will for Tho left Tho effects Ofthus reversal of sentiment were Felt even after Tho election when the Rome general called for de Cember in december the communists to make a event out of the funeral of one of their members killed in a it want nearly so impressive As the Christian the fifth and last comm Nistad the Campaign against High received a body blow this Winter when Degasperis government succeeded in forcing food Down As Muchas 50 the Price situation has its these products Are Down meat and while the other Side trans bread and pasta Are but still prices Are from fifty to seventy times higher than they were be fore the v i another which the communists have to contend the growing federalist movement in Italy for a United states of while exiled in count Sforza predicted that after the War there will be no Dis Cussion of italian problems As such but Only Sofita Liasides of european prob Many other prominent and influential italians have become interested in this such men As Luigi professor Ferruccio resistance and former Nazio socialist Are Back ing this United Europe then an outside Chance exists that Pietro Nenni might refuse to follow twists the communist he has already spoken against any on sided Alliance Moscow in a statement he flatly if rus Sia were to declare a italian socialists would take a position against Togliatti he int you cant suppress we control cities like he Points to communist party member ship which has increased about half a million since january there Are 9947 communist sections throughout the country which Are in turn broken Down into according to a spokes Man 45 per cent of the members Are Industrial 17 per cent Collar per cent these men the whole Are under 219 communist and socialist deputies spent a total of 295 years in for fighting against Musso seventeen were put in concentration Camps 124 were to penal is one communist woman Deputy spent seven and a half years in a third of this time in solitary confine eighteen Days after her release in 1943 she had formed a partisan group and was fighting actively against the fascist its generally concede that militants of the left As Well As of the right have secreted Large quantities of in one month the following was seized from private citizens in Italy five sixty six machine 560 1639 artillery approximately a thousand hand seventy thousand and Over a ton of the have started to threaten Luigi Togliatti a righthand Man recently we can destroy any intention of american to can impose and enforce those measures which the government refuses to put effect in a world of its Force that counts tool tatty has admitted starting the november disorders in even though were going into political elec we Are already engaged in a Broad fight that goes on outside the electoral we cant to satisfied with simple preparation for he charged his followers to the attack far beyond a simple electoral in spite of these menacing state ments count Sforza Hai communism is impossible in Basle me Here is an Antithesis of the collective life As practice by when Italy goes to Tho polls in Tho eyes of the rest of Europe and of the world will be watching to see if Tho communists hold their own or if they make Good their threat to flight outside the Legal framework of the italian re claims he int Pietro left Wing socialist wanted to unite with thu Ippei Schogol Heads the right Wing of split socialist rated from Cabinet