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Michele Donno
Close to the liberal ideas of Gobetti and the Marxist reflection of Mondolfo, Saragat joined, in 1922, the unitary Socialist Party of Matteotti and Turati, making the themes of reformist socialism his own from his youth. During Fascism, he went into exile in Austria in 1926. In 1930 he moved to France, where he was the protagonist of the reunification of the PSI and of the anti-fascist unity of action. Back to Italy in 1943, he participated in institutional and governmental activities, accepting the appointment as ambassador to France in 1945. From Paris, he reported to De Gasperi about the meetings with the Soviet ambassador Bogomolov and the fears of the USSR about the possible birth of a European Social Democratic ‘third bloc’. This led to the conviction that the ancient Communist aversion to social democracies would regain strength after the war. The attempts by the PSI to merge with the PCI were opposed by Saragat, starting from the socialist congress of 1946, followed, a few months later, by the splitting of Palazzo Barberini.
