Gianni Agnelli

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been read more

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank read more

Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.

Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist read more

Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their read more

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.