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Left, Right & Center. On the side of parliamentary government: the Democratic Christian (Catholic) Party and three other middle-of-the-road parties which have been governing Italy since 1948 under the coalition cabinet of 72-year-old Demo-Christian Premier Alcide de Gasperi. Strength at the last election: about 62% of the total vote...
Under the election reform law pushed through Parliament over strenuous left & right delaying tactics, the Demo-Christian coalition can be sure of an ample majority in Parliament (64%) if it can win but 50.1% of the vote next June 7. The Communists hope to make an effective majority impossible by keeping the center's vote below 50.1%; the Monarchists and Fascists hope to draw enough to force De Gasperi to seek their help-in return for concessions to the right-to form a new government...
...last week the Italian press cried for school reform Said the Demo-Christian Il Popolo: "The youth of today finds his moral support in a society of comic books movies and shows . . . where men & women shoot and poison, steal and assault; the representation of a jungle world." We are all convinced," said Milan's Corriere delta Sera, "that the Italian school program is loaded in a frightening manner. We must impose a remedy." Shrilled the Communist L'Unità: "The responsibility lies with the system in which we live, which transforms the school into a camp of ruthless...
Deadly Adventure. The measure before the house was admittedly controversial, and inspired misgivings even among some of De Gasperi's Demo-Christian coalition. By a formula so complex that it took two mathematicians and a handful of political scientists three months to work it out, De Gasperi's proposal would give 64% of the seats in the Chamber to any party or coalition which wins more than 50% of the vote. De Gasperi, whose own devotion to minority rights was hardened during his long years in opposition to Mussolini, is reluctantly convinced that democracy can survive in Italy...
After 20 minutes, peace returned to the chamber, now slopped with ink and blood and littered with glass shards, torn paper and shredded shirts. One usher went to the hospital with a brain concussion; a Red sported a two-inch-deep gash in his scalp; a Demo-Christian nursed a badly bruised abdomen; the House first-aid station impartially bandaged Red heads and court-plastered Demo-Christian faces...