... , and by painting the PCI in a bad light. A series of events began in the last month prior to the elections that played a prominent role in the Christian Democratic victory. President Harry Truman chose this time to release 29 merchant ships to the Italian government that had been seized during the war as a gesture of "friendship and confidence in a democratic Italy-(Miller ... ...

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