EVALUATIONS OF THE PSI CONGRESS BY THE MAS AND PRI.

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• Publication Date: June 22, 1955
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY Italy
SUBJECT Evaluations of the PSI Congress
the MAS. and PRI,
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
There are available from the CIA.'Library photocopies of the following three untranslated
Italian reports which deal with considerations on and evaluations of the
Thirty.-First'National Congress of the Partito Socialista Italian (PSI;,
Italian Socialist Party) which was held in Turin from 31 March to 3 April
1955t
a,. Attachment A is a two page report received on 21 April; it gives an
evaluation of the PSI Congress by the Partito Repubbliceno Italian
(PRI; Italian Republican Party). In the opinion of the PRI, three of
the most positive indications that the Congress represented some pro..
gross toward the liberation of Italian Socialism from Communism were
the acceptance of the Western alliances, the acceptance of the Vanoni
Plan as a basis for social democratic policy, and independence from
the Communist Party in the electoral. campaign. The FRI.feels, however,
that the policy of the PSI citinues to be to the advantage-of the
Communists and therefore no opening to the Left0is possible at this
time*
be, Attachment B is a five-page evaluation-of the PSI Congress by leaders
of the Movimento di Autonomic Socialists. (MAS; Movement of'Socialist
Autonomy) which was:;'rmceived on 26 April 1955. The MAS leaders be-
lieve that the objecti'b ,';,raised by members of the Partito Social-
ista Democratico Italiano'(PSDI; Italian Democratic Socialist Party)
to the results of the PSI Congress are a clear indication that the
PSI did not limit itself to an attempt to set forth a socialist
philosophy, as the other leading political parties had expected it
to do, It tried, as have other parties t-ri.th no success, to solve
the problem of the "democratic alternative"i i.e., the problem of
following a socialist policy within the framework of a democratic
government. What is needed, claim MAS leaders, is a rapprochement
between the militants and the political leadership within the PSI
so that the Party can act as a unified group.
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o.; Attachment C is a four-page report dated 3 May 1955 and entitled
"Considerations on the PSI Congress Held Recently in Turin". It
states that PSI leader Pietro Nenni, and PSI Senator Rodolfo Mo-
randi clearly gave the Impression at the Congress that they favor
the Christian Democratic elements who advocate an'bpening to the
Left: They were both opposed to the suggestion made by PSI Deputy
and Vice-President of the Chamber of the Deputies., Ferdinando Tar-
getti,, to introduce an anti-clerical motion.
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