The day after the start of work, 19 July, there was the bombing of the Roman neighborhood of San Lorenzo, by the United States Air Force.
The subsequent definition of "common good" is noted in the note by Pope Pius XII's famous Christmas Radio Message 1942, which describes it as " the external conditions that are needed by all citizens to develop their quality and their offices, their material, intellectual, and religious lives, since, on the one hand, the strengths and energies of the family and of other organisms, which have a natural precedence, are not enough, on the other, the saving will of God has not determined in the Church a universal universal society serving the human person and the implementation of its religious ends''.
About the economic life of the state, after affirming that "For ordering economic life it is necessary to add to the law of justice the law of charity", the code lists eight moral principles to be informed of the activity of economic life: On the duty of solidarity, the Code prescribes that "As long as there are members in the society who lack the necessary, it is the fundamental duty of society to provide, both with private charity, with private charity institutions and with other means, including restriction of the property of unnecessary goods, to the extent necessary to satisfy the needy. "
The document, especially in the list of 76 statements, refers to some inspirational texts, including: According to Paolo Emilio Taviani the "Code" would subsequently strongly inspire the Christian Democrats engaged in the two decades following the reform which, as a result of the overcoming of autarky and protectionism, provided for the liberalization of foreign trade; and influenced on housing policy (Fanfani home plan), on the southern issue (the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno), on the forecast of works for the depressed areas, on agrarian reform, on the establishment and management of bodies state participation.
Accompanied by related phenomena such as subsistence and identified by detractors as a signal of impenetrable statism, this system was increasingly pressed to be dismantled, as it is allegedly detrimental to the national economy.
According to Mario Ferrari Aggradi, some of these purposes (such as full employment) were expressly pursued with deliberate use of the possibilities offered by the system of state participations, in fact they defined the latter as "the preferred instrument for public intervention in economy".