Oldal 3 [3]
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—m page three = 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 # ! } 1 S
