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...locality for any of us to push into nomination - from alderman up - someone who doesn't represent the ideals and purposes in which we all believe." He took time out - "so that our balance of values does not get out of order" - to note that Communists and not Demo crats were the principal enemy. "Let's not build up a picture that the worst enemy anyone can have is a Democrat. Far from it; we just don't think they can do as good a job as we, do." But midway in his speech, it was clear...
...that, more than 100 Red Deputies and their Nenni Socialist allies rushed into the well of the Chamber to start a brawl. Togni got little help from his fellow Demo-Christians, who stayed in their seats. But neo-Fascists and Monarchists met the Reds with swinging fists. Six Deputies, all right-wingers, had to be treated at the Chamber's first-aid station...
When the returns came in the Demo crats won 21 of 24 seats in the Territorial House, where they had only four before, and eight of the nine Senate seats at stake. Said the Anchorage Times: "A Boston Tea Party in Alaska fashion...
...Fanfani then promised to back De Gasperi for President of Italy, a job with more prestige than power, which will probably fall vacant when 81-year-old Luigi Einaudi finishes his seven-year term next May. Fanfani also reportedly gave assurances of continued backing to the government of fellow Demo-Christian Mario Scelba, and promised that for the next year, at least, he would not seek public office. He arranged for the Vatican's vital nihil obstat, delivered by a spokesman: "The Vatican welcomes this induction of new energy in the Christian Democratic Party, without of course disparaging...
...meeting of the National Council, Fanfani called De Gasperi "our teacher and guide," Scelba "my dear friend," and proposed that the council elect to membership his two chief opponents, Giuseppe Pella of the Demo-Christian right wing, and Giovanni Gronchi of the left, who had been passed over at Naples. In his short acceptance speech, Fanfani used the word friend 50 times. His friendliness proved contagious: the changeover was completely harmonious...