... -train- ride to economic advancement for Italy from the vast wealth of the American government. Making matters even more dismal for the communists was the fact that Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi was wrought with stress over how desperate Italy was in need of financial aid in the wake of the devastation brought on by the effects of the second world ... war. The United States used this angle as their "trump card- to pressure de Gasperi into weeding out leftist opposition in his cabinet. The withholding of United States aid and the cancellation of one billion dollars worth of debt owed ...

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... has dispersed throughout the trade routes. The plague was one of the most devastating epidemics ever to occur and people who have been victims of it have suffered tremendously. Jean de Venette explains the severity of the plague in detail in his records in the "Chronicle." Quoting from the narrative he writes, "People lay ill little more than two ... ...

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