ITALY: POSSIBLE COMMUNIST VIOLENCE (W/ATTACHMENT)

Created: 3/15/1948

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alter the elections; and (b) if tho likelihood of such adecreases, serious pre-election violence byisossibility,

believes that If the Leftist blocarge plurality in the elections and if the Government maneuvers to exclude the Communists from governmental participation, aof violence and strikes will occur.