ITALIAN CABINET CRISIS

Chronicle (Levin), 14 May 1947, Page 5

ITALIAN CABINET CRISIS

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; Premier Resigns Following Stormy Meetrng

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i R'eceived W6dhesddy, 1!1 a'.m. ROME, MUy 13. 1 The Italian Pfime' hifini'ster, Si'gnOr de Gasperi, ahnouncing his; 'resignatibn after a! brief ancf Istormy meetrng', saltf ti SbeiaiiWtjcommunique issued yest'erday, jchaTging hi'm with delibetaf ely jprdvoking a crisi's, ftdd left him' ilov jalternutive.- • Si'gnor de' Ga'speri was to 'haVe lex'plained to the ConstitU'eht Asjsembly oday the need for a new' iGovefnmeht on- the widest possible ib'asi's, includihg' the Right-wiiigers,-fn order to rneet' the financial' and' jecorioniic problems, but he _ tol'd' iCabinet that he felt he could' not jspeak for the Government iii' view lof the Socialist accusation and; Itheir opposition to the Cabinet expansion plan. ; The Parliamentary SoGialists, in a statement read at the Cabinet meeting, declared that they were unalterably opposed to the enlargement of Cabinet on the ground that it would only add to the Government's general inefficiency. Signor Cacciatore, Socialist Minister of Communications,- said later that the three Socialist Ministers m the Cabinet informed the Premier that they regarded his decision- as designed to throw the blame for the crisis on the Socialist Party, and that they could not ac'cept such a responsi-bility. Signor de Gasperi's anti-inflation plan was also considered to have failed, bririging him under fire because the loans which he said the United States would make had failed to materialise.