insecure. 'Structural reforms" can be blown away in one wave of repression. The vacuousness oi much of the PCI's DOSLWaI DORCY well resumed in Togliatti's rôle as Minister of Justice in the mid-1940s: as such, he failed to get the laws repealed. Now they are being marsue 'ed with a vengeance against the lett The old social democrats are pushing law and oraer. ine vancan is waeenng and deanng Just uke in ine years 1944-4, subverting even a centrist government challenging Ene powers even of the Parliament-thanks to ine Concordat, which the Communists voted keep. In the great factories in the North, and the poverty-stricken fields of the South, workers are being arrested In under COm DICICI aribtrary laws. Houses are being raided and wrecked by both police and fascist gangs. Books, always a bugbear of fascists, are being seized: in Diderot even Deel Toune subversive, and removed along with Marx and Lenin. Italv has not had a Mav 1968. but for all that the crisis is more profound, because the left stronger, Deter organized. mOre militant. While the crisis incubates, it is well that the regime should know it is hated not only in Italy but thoughout the world.
JON HALLIDAY March Ist 1970 DEVAUX - Always in a bad mood * Badly turned out * Intelligent and educated Undisciplinea and insubordinate * Always goes to the limit of the tolerable * Well known anti-militarist * Seemed to support the opposition * Untrustworthy * To be constantly watched TROVILLEUX - Looks placid * Taken to fantasies and impulses * Good shot, bad soldier * Could have become an officer if his pride anc critical attitude had not prevented it HERRE - Negligent appearance * Mediocre * No interest in his work * Difficult and contrary * Could have been an officer but no interest in making the grade
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