Rome On April 28/29 the Italian Communist Party got more votes than any Communist Party has ever received in a free election anywhere in the world. Seven and three-quarter million Italians—25.3 per cent of the electorate, and a million more than in 1958—voted for a party that has been consistently orthodox in its adherence to the Communist program and unswerving in its open allegiance to an alien power.
Italy’s major party, the Democratic Christian, that has governed the country since the war, lost a million and a quarter votes, and dropped its percentage to 38.3.
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