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...Gasperi's Cabinet, but left because he could not promote enough backing for his full-employment ideas (he wanted jobs-made work if necessary-for all of Italy's 2,000,000 unemployed). He believes everyone is entitled to "a job, a house, and music." As Demo-Christian candidate for Florence's mayoralty two years ago, he blasted the Communists loose from a five-year grip on the city's administration. To poverty-ridden Florence he has brought low-cost housing, sanitary improvements, tree planting, free concerts. Florentines sometimes call him Il Santo (The Saint...
...president of Contrada's town council, Carmine, a dedicated Monarchist, set himself to bait the sulky showoff, Silvio, an ardent Demo-Christian, at every turn. When Silvio planted cherry trees on the borders of his property, Carmine made him cut them down because they overhung the village highway. When Silvio built himself a tomb in the local churchyard, Carmine complained that its steps were on public property. "Material wealth can never replace brains," he gloated when the steps were ordered removed...
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...