Word: degasperi
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...refusing to see Mendes-France, Dulles committed one of the cardinal sins of diplomacy--meddling in the internal affairs of another nation. It was such U.S. meddling that almost caused the defeat of Italy's DeGasperi and so embarrassed Germany's Adenauer when the State Department openly supported the two men in elections last year. And in the case of Mendes-France, it could easily intensify French nationalistic opposition to any sort of supra-national alliance...
...Nenni visited Moscow last July, he was granted a rare privilege: a personal interview with Stalin. Back home, Nenni became the first salesman to peddle the Kremlin's bright new line of peace goods. He offered it first to shrewd, 71-year-old Premier Alcide de Gasperi. When DeGasperi refused even to finger the wares from Moscow, Nenni last week took them to the floor of Italy's Chamber of Deputies...
Consumer resistance now raised itself. Premier DeGasperi took the floor to speak for two hours. He began with a Ciceronian dunque (Now then) and went on to point out what had happened to other nations with which Russia had signed non-aggression pacts. He listed them off-Finland, Poland, Rumania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania-and then, while the Communist benches sat silently, he carefully gave dates and detail of how Russia had later invaded or occupied them...
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