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Probable Developments in Domestic Policy.
The inherent difficulties of resolving the problems of economic expansion in
Italy and the obstacles interposed thereto by interested sectors of the population will
continue to block attainment of tangible improvement in the lives of the people.
Within the next six or eight months, at least, improvement of this sort will not be
impressive. Despite these limitations on what it can offer in the immediate future,
the government could inspire public confidence by sponsoring a bold, comprehensive
legislative program. To date, however, it has failed to give indications either of having
or of soon developing such a program. Consequently, the government cannot look
forward to winning popular approval of its foreign policies on the basis of having
created popular satisfaction over its approach to the problem of domestic needs.
There remains, moreover, the danger that by 1953 an important segment of
the Italian public, if adequate social and economic improvements through ECA aid
and governmental action are not forthcoming, will shift its support back to the Left,
particularly to the dynamic Communist Party. This reaction would not immediately
affect to a serious degree the composition of the present government, but it would
probably lead to the withdrawal therefrom of the moderate Socialists. The national
elections of 1953, however, would probably result in a decisive loss of popular support
for De Gasperi's Christian Democrats.*
No mention was made in section 3 above, "Domestic Problems," of a domestic threat to the
De Gasperi Government, namely the Communist paramilitary organization (approximately
80,000 armed men), primarily because this organization has not to date become an operative
or disruptive factor affecting government policy on either of the two fundamental problems
treated in this paper.
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