Word: demo-christians
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...read the results of Italy's spring municipal elections with vague uneasiness. Although the Communists had lost most of the towns & cities they had dominated, they had made disturbing gains in popular vote: Red ballots were up to 37.2%, v. 30.3% in 1948; in the same period, the Demo-Christian vote had dropped from...
...Communists achieved their gain after years of Marshall Plan aid to Italy, at a time when the country was probably in better economic shape than at any time in modern history, and despite the Roman Catholic Church's strong intervention for the Demo-Christian De Gasperi. Italian politicians had some explanations...
...past by a common fear of Communism and by De Gasperi's skill as a compromiser. One of the factions that has been acting up is the Frondisti* who are left-wingers and want a faster program of social reform. At the other end of the Demo-Christian spectrum is a right-wing faction which wants less social reform (notably, less land reform). Its members are known as the Vespisti, because they meet in the club-rooms of Rome's Vespa motor-scooter club...
...final effort to break the deadlock, pleaded in earnest but halting French. "I appeal to our French and German friends: let your pace be fast and your vision wide." Then, switching to more fluent German, he added, "We must subordinate even our elections and the destinies of our Demo-christian parties to attaining this union." Despite De Gasperi's urgings, the congress wound up with only a vague, if unanimous, resolution declaring Christian Democracy's "unshakeable will to fight Communism in union . . . with all the free world" and its "hope that at the next session of the European...
...court's decision, they each poured insulting pity upon the other. "Those poor people, the Spilambertians," said Il Corsaro, "they have the goiter. It's not their fault. It is only the water." Down the road in Spilamberto, the secretary of the village's Demo-Christian Party felt equally sorry for the San Cesarians. "Good folks," he said, "only they have the goiter. Confidentially, they really have got it properly. It is the fault of the water." Said one old Cesarian: "The Spilambertians cannot keep their wives. Three ran away last month." Said a pitying Spilambertian...