Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call by Pope John for an ecumenical council underscores the urgency that he feels for the state of Christian unity today...
Teetering on a one-vote majority in the Chamber of Deputies, Italy's Christian Democratic Premier Amintore Fanfani has often cast longing eyes toward the 84 left-wing Socialist seats controlled by wily, 67-year-old Pietro Nenni...
...strong Communist Party. Nenni condemned the Russian smashing of the Hungarian revolt, and privately he calls the Reds "black beasts." With this in mind, Fanfani designed his semi-Socialist program partly to tempt the Nenni Socialists into part-time support of his government. Alarmed, the right-wing Christian Democratic faction of ex-Premier Guiseppe Pella warned Fanfani that they would leave the party if they were "betrayed by this unnatural association with Marxism...
...bobbing around the microphone, Nenni shouted: "This government has almost been brought to the ground, which is already scattered with the bones of some of its most notable members . . . The policy of Fanfani is a phony socialism, with echelons of plans and reforms favorable only to monopolistic groups . . . Christian Democracy spells zero, and on zero you can build nothing. Our place is in the opposition." Furthermore, declared Nenni: "Prejudice and antagonism against Communism is out of the question...
...reduced to the status of a servant to a new mistress in the house. But three years ago, when South Viet Nam became independent, the women found a champion. As sister-in-law and official hostess of Bachelor President Ngo Dinh Diem, dainty Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, 30, a Christian, is not only the first lady of a Buddhist land; she is also the most determined feminist since the late Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst...