Letter from Italy.

This article focuses on social conditions of Italy after the second world war. The author says that the masses know that a closed caste is already so solidly entrenched that no true democracy or social justice is possible. And this perhaps explains the continuous trend toward the left shown in the recent local elections. There are today two million unemployed, which means that ten million persons, about one-fourth of the population, are without even the minimum necessities of life. This is the country's fundamental problem, and one doubts that any Marshall plan, an economic plan by George C. Marshall for recovery of World war II, could solve it.