Washington alarm over 1948 Italian Communist gains
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- Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War pp. 110-113 · open book
The Italian Communist party was favored to score heavily in the 1948 elections, and many analysts said that the party might democratically win control of the country’s government. This prospect created such alarm in Washington that George Kennan—by then the foremost long- range strategist for the U.