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...COMMUNISM IN EUROPE. I wouldn't like to see the Communist Party in the government in Paris, or in Rome, or in other places. On the other hand, I do not believe that this must of necessity mean a catastrophe. We have seen Communists as ministers, and even in higher office, in Lisbon, and we have seen them in Reykjavik. Europe has not collapsed, nor has the Atlantic Alliance. I would not like us to predict disaster if it's possible that such predictions might in the end prove to be self-fulfilling prophecies...
...would a PCI triumph represent an extension of Soviet domination into Western Europe; in fact, by legitimating diversity within European Communism, it would increase the ability of Eastern European countries to explore alternative socialist models to that of the Soviet Union. Paradoxically, continued American intransigence will only weaken the PCI's ability to maintain its distance from Moscow by undermining its contention that there is a "third way" between East and West. American policy makers should abandon their cold war vision of a monolithic international Communist movement, and resolutely refrain from interfering with Italian moves toward the historic compromise...
...Communist Party needs NATO more than anybody else," he said, adding that "without NATO, Euro-Communism would be no longer lived than it was in Czechoslovakia...
Perle, who called the charges "laughable," said he has never joined an organization further left than the American Civil Liberties Union. "Like Jackson, I have been somewhat to the left on domestic issues, but I have always been hostile to Communism." Fosdick was even more perplexed...
...When a party has one-third of the voters in a country, it represents a vast spectrum of the electorate, not necessarily just the working class. This different category of voters-intellectuals, middle class and others-also makes the Italian Communist Party different from the American popular impression of Communism...