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 |