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Despite these problems, De Gaulle and Italian President Giuseppe Saragat snipped two symbolic ribbons one morning last week to open the world's longest auto tunnel (7¼ miles) under Western Europe's highest mountain (15,781 ft.). Then they climbed into Saragat's Fiat limousine and drove from France through the mountain to the Italian town of Courmayeur. After thousands of years of wishful thinking, eight decades of frustrated planning and six hard years of toil, Europe's greatest physical barrier had been conquered...
...Views. Not so the political barriers, which had kept the tunnel on the back burners from 1881, when the French first decided to build it, until 1953, when France and Italy signed a formal agreement to begin work on it. Although both De Gaulle and Saragat last week bravely hailed the event as a milestone toward European political unity, they were, as usual, talking about two different Europes...
...economist from industrial Turin in northern Italy, Saragat belonged to the Socialist party directorate as early as 1925. He spent the Fascist years in exile in Austria and France, returning to Italy in 1943 and joining the first anti-Fascist government. Because he bitterly opposed the "unity of action" pact with the Communists, Saragat broke with the Socialists to form his own party. In his long career, Saragat has ably filled posts ranging from Ambassador to France to Foreign Minister...
Most Italians agree with Barzini that the best man won. Honest and tenacious, Saragat is both a poet and a visionary who dreams of a United Europe. But his more immediate concern will be the uniting of Italy itself. The presidential election showed once again the creaky nature of the nation's political system, with its multiplicity of parties. It also produces new strains in Premier Aldo Moro's ruling center-left coalition and among the Christian Democrats, who after 18½ years of ruling Italy, have become more a collection of factions than a coherent political party...
...very same day last week that Socialist Giuseppe Saragat was elected President of Italy (see THE WORLD), the Italian government announced the transfer of 35 more electric-power companies from private ownership to Ente Nazionale per L'Energia Elettrica, the huge, state-owned electric-power company. The coincidence was significant: the same political forces that elected Saragat have also joined to make Italy one of Western Europe's most nationalized countries. Such an alliance two years ago set in motion the nationalization of the electric-power industry that was completed last week. All this despite the fact that...