ITALIAN POLITICAL SITUATION
1- FREEDOM FROM THE ENEMY AND NOT CIVIL LIBERTY.
With the liberation of Rome from the Nazi-Fascist domination all
Italians expected to regain the principal liberties: economical, juridical,
political. Instead they got none of them: this
is the sole truth of the present Italian situation
which, continuing, can lead only to a Communist
dictatorship.
We have not regained economical liberty, because
there has been no preparation from any side before
the Armistice. And this is an excusable fault. The
exigencies of war made extremely difficult any
economical and technical preparation, while it is
less pardonable not to have attended to the restoration
of juridical and political liberty. The
Italians who got power were not animated with the
true spirit of liberty, and the Allies did not see the necessity to
reestablish it energetically and at once.
2 - VIOLATION OF THE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF LIBERTY.
When Mr. Churchill was in Rome in 1944, he
advised the Italian Government to inspire the people's
confidence in justice, administrating it through old
and traditional tribunals with well tried laws, well
fixed in the popular conscience. - Instead the
Government has created ex-novo legislations and