COLD WAR: Italy Has Made an Uneasy Choice.

Focuses on various political developments in Italy and the U.S. and the Soviet Union's role in it. Announcement by Alcide de Gasperi, leader of the Church-supported Christian Democratic Party, of the creation of an Italian government without Communists; View that the ousting of the Communists was one of the most fateful Italian political acts for it made of Republican Italy an economic dependent of the U.S.; Consequences of ousting of the Communists; Description of the West-East duel between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; Role of De Gasperi as the successful champion of the West; Reflection of the growing Communist influence in Italy inspite power in the hands of de Gasperi.