Word: christianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Fuad Shehab, 56, patrician, arthritic, French-trained professional soldier, has headed Lebanon's 8,000-man army since 1945. A Maronite Christian, he is a collateral of the famous Emirs Mansur, Yusuf and Bashir who ruled Lebanon under the Ottoman Turks. Eighty percent of his officers, 60% of his men are Christian. Six years ago, when Chamoun's predecessor tried to stay in office during an unpopular second term, Shehab refused him the army's assistance and reluctantly served as acting president until Chamoun's election. Ostentatiously unwilling to order his troops to fight except...
...parliamentary elections knew that they were voting for Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti, but that he had no chance of becoming Premier. And a vote for the Red-lining-left-wing Socialists was just as clearly a vote for the party's leader, Pietro Nenni. But the Christian Democrats, the nation's biggest party, campaigned with no face except the postered memory of their late great postwar statesman Alcide de Gasperi, and the promise of "progress without adventure" along the established line of the party's pro-Western, middle-road record. It was not until last week...
With a panel of five ex-Premiers to decide among, the Christian Democrats rewarded the bustling "little professor" who had organized their victory: Party Secretary Amintore Fanfani, 50, a tireless Tuscan who has long pined for the job (TIME...
Unfazed, Fanfani turned his great administrative talents to reorganizing the Christian Democratic Party, was largely responsible for the 1.5 million new votes and ten new Chamber seats that the party won in May. But the Christian Democrats failed to win the absolute majority of seats that would have permitted them to govern without help from other parties. Whoever became Premier would have to turn left or right for 26 more votes...
...Spare. An outspoken advocate of New Dealish reforms in Italy, Fanfani promptly looked left. Aided by Italy's Christian Democratic President Giovanni Gronchi, Fanfani won agreement from Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats to join him in a left-of-center anti-Communist coalition. The Christian Democrats' 272 votes and the Social Democrats' 22 votes still fell four short of a majority in the Chamber. With the votes of one French-speaking and three German-speaking Deputies from autonomous border regions, and the support of Typewriter Tycoon Adriano Olivetti, who captured one seat for his "Community" movement...