Oldal 2 [2]
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XeAell. December 52. - page two = 4his very menocing danger of the Communist rarty is furthermore incr asedad by a very real crisis within the Christian Democracy. this crisis is not outwardly ap earante it is not one visible to the nacked eye, tit it si one which at present is seriously endangering the continuation of de wasperi's gove:nment. The crisis this time, comes not so much from factional disputes, betue.n the right wing or the left winge it is something more dangerouse it is the uprising of young idealist forces against the sordéd realities of Uhristian Democratic policyé There are two points especially, against «hich these forces will votes i1t is first of all the hidden, though very real corrup&ion in the upper rarty brackets. it is an open secret in nome that many Christian vbemocratic leaders hsve b come extremely wealthy in office. Names of highly placed persons arc mentionede aA house cleahing would be urgently needed; but sofar fle Gasperi has shown no willingness to do so. the young people snd some ola oneg, like von Sttrzo, d mond that something be done about that situations mrevarlo retrone, member of Farliament, made these demands publice the reformers say that the people are get ing very tired indecd ana that unless something drastic is done, the Christian Democrats might be defeated by a .andslide. It is interesting to know that the -xample of the United States is oft n mentioned. Unaoubedly, the atmosphere is a bad once ang it is increased furthermore by the dissatisfaction of lurge sections of the Uhrstian Democrats by the way in which the rarty is Lead. mead rohip todgay in the rarty is absolutely apthoritaria The present leaders want to perpetuated themselves in office and hence try to prevent the rising of new forcese ihe Christina Democratic rarty is no longer a mocratic in its structure, since the rarity Congress lost all its powerse *#urthernore the reform forces point out the leaderskip of the rarty has not lived up to its social promisese the thristian vemocrats hada promisdée to secure an ad quate land roform in wouthern italye There is no doubt, but that the land situation in South is bade To much soil is bteld by too fews Sut sofer the Semocrazia Christiana has taken only balf—-hearted measures to solve the probleme Thus, the Southern masses fundamentally good Uatholices, ars graduclly drifting into the communist camp, out of sheer dispaire wie mast admit in fairness that a land reform would be far of solving the ter ibl« problem af Italian Ex overpopulation. This is « matter of international concerns but at least psychologically it .ouid ao great deal to show to the masses that the vwhristian Democrats are trving to do somethings Ama in this, sofa., de wasp ri has signally failede But where the crisis of the present re.,ime wecomes by far th most acute, is in the question of monarchy. No one can doubt that today a large maj rity of Italians want the return of King Eumberto.e They are sick and tired of the Republice A secret survey made by a high Italian governmental agency revealed recently that in case of a plebiscite, over 60% of the *talians would vote for the Monarchye Th: majority of the Christian Democrats is also in favor of the King. They damand increasingly that something be done in ofder to give the peopl a chance to say what they want. But de Gasperi is bitterly opposed to such a soltthion. (3.
