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"Armed Forces could support well-organized rightist Party
The top security and military officers would very much prefer to see organized a strong rightist political party which they can support and from which they can obtain political and ideological orientation. But such a Party must be democratic and ready to respect the Republican Constitution. [...] What the country's security and military leaders wished was the emergence of a new party, with the Italian Liberal Party as the nucleus, which would embrace all the right-wing forces, including moderate-elements that now belong to the [neofascist] Italian Social Movement and the Monarchist Party. Such a Party would have the full support of the security and military establishment either indirectly in elections or directly, if needed, should the security of the State be threatened through Communist subversion"
"Armed Forces could support well-organized rightist Party
The top security and military officers would very much prefer to see organized a strong rightist political party which they can support and from which they can obtain political and ideological orientation. But such a Party must be democratic and ready to respect the Republican Constitution. [...] What the country's security and military leaders wished was the emergence of a new party, with the Italian Liberal Party as the nucleus, which would embrace all the right-wing forces, including moderate-elements that now belong to the [neofascist] Italian Social Movement and the Monarchist Party. Such a Party would have the full support of the security and military establishment either indirectly in elections or directly, if needed, should the security of the State be threatened through Communist subversion"
From Julian P. Fromer's, First Secretary of US Embassy in Rome, notes, May 26th, 1964
Giovanni De Lorenzo, General Chief of Staff
Dear Pacciardi,
[...] I must tell you that the idea of a Government enriched by civil servants had always been supported by me, but with little success. Especially whit the birth of the Leone government I insisted, with the support of the President of the Republic-elected. Unfortunately the Party dismissed the idea.
We must have the braveness, in this new framework, of walking straightly with no subservience or forced steps.
[Cesare] Merzagora [President of the Italian Senate]
from right to left, Republican Party leader Randolfo Pacciardi and Socialist Party leader Pietro Nenni, during the Spanish Civil War
Dear Nenni, I've read your article on the "Avanti!" [...] and I'm deeply hurted that you painted me as the leader of a pre-ordained Government of fascist-agrarian-industrialist orientation, with the strategic design of humiliating the Houses of Parliament, political parties and trade unions! [...]
Merzagora
Cesare Merzagora, independent Christian Democrat
[...] The Ministry of the Interior has asked for the next July the 2nd a fresh list of under surveillance members of the Italian Communist Party living in the province. [...]
4th of July, 1964 notes from Bergamo Police Department
Antonio Segni, President of the Italian Republic
Rome, Summer 1964
