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Undoubtedly the great loser of the campaign has been the
Democracia Christiana, It still stays as the strongest Party, but
if we compare the voting of the present elections with those of
the general elections, the enormity of the drop can be realized,
The D.C, cannot go to any polls at present without hevily Llosinge
They are electorally an the skids, They lose votes on both sides 4
to the right end the left; but the bulk of their voters zoes to the
right and it is interesting to note that in the few places in which
the DeC, @liied themselves with the right instesd of the smaller
left parties they did not drop in voting, but even gained some,
but this is the exception, though a very significant one,
fhe Communists and their Socialist Aliies have stood their
ground, in places even increased their voting power, This is a very
remarkeable teat, which should not be overlooked, It can be admit»
ted that the cards were stacked against them, The public forces,
the administrative machinery, the way to count the ballotts was
all against then, An objective observer wiil have to admit that the
Communists, powerful as they emerged from the voting, would be more
powerful still had it not been for the opportune help of the au=
thorities, They are stronger than they seem. And this is a fact
with which not to count would be supreme folly. Togliatti is today
stronger than he was four or five years ago. His machinery works
better, more efficiently, and his underground apparatus works bet~
ter than before, And even the visible machine is stronber. A very
serious prospect for the free nations,
The real winners of the elections was the right : the Mons
archists and the Movimento Sociale Italiana, the Mi.S.I. They not
only increased their voting power in sensational manners, but did
so with the cards stacked against them even more than against the
Communists. Both had to fight a lack of fund, They had no foreign
finencial help, The whole might of State and Church was arrayed
against them - and this in a country in which every rightwinzer is
also strongly religious, Had it not beem for the direct pressures,
there is today little doubt that they would have come out as the
strongest party in the country, with the D,C,, being a very poor
third. So, their showing was still extremely impressive, and is...
one to be counted with in the coming elections, Of the two coalized
parties the showing of the Monarchists wae clearly the more specta~
cular, The Monarchiqts demand a renewal of the plebiscite on the
regine,s a fact the Pépublicans will fight tooth and nail since there
is not the slightest doubt to any observer at present that a ple
biscite on the fom of governement would today result in a Mons
archist landslide, even in usually Republican cities, In this con=
nection it is interesting to note, that the force of the Monarchist
idea is much greater than the one of the party. Privately it is ad
mitted today, that all Liberals, better then 80; of ton D.C. and
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