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(3) ITALY'S PRIESTS WERE VITAL —Barbara Barclay Carter
Without the help of the clergy, the Italian resistance movement would have failed, said Miss Barbara Barclay Carter, who has just returned from a four-months visit to Italy, speaking at the C.S.G. Summer School.
In her lecture she described the background of the Italian Christian Democratic Party, and its growth from the underground groups that opposed Fascism throughout its rule to those that finally led the country dr) its moment of liberation.
Miss Carter described how the recent Paris decisions on the Italian peace treaty had been a hard blow to the Italians.
For months they fought a civil war and fought the Germans and had .' worked their passage " as Allied propaganda had called on them to do. Now they were being asked to sign a humiliating treaty. It was probable that they would not sign, said Miss Carter.
Even now this proposed treaty was being used to weaken the position of the Christian Democrats. In France the Communist leader, Thorez, was explaining to the Italians that the only reason France wanted to guard her Italian frontiers was because of Vatican influence. Inside Italy the people were saying that De Gaspari had let Italy down. The Italians had long looked to us but now they were finding that it was only Communists and Molotov who were prepared to recognise the Italian resistance movement and to make little acts of kindness towards Italy. Miss Carter saw in this a plan on the part of Russia to drive a wedge between the Western allies and Italy.
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