Word: demochristian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Expected to win victory narrowly-51-55% of the expected 26 million votes -De Gasperi realized that the great danger was indifference; seeing no chance of a Communist victory this year, the complacent might simply stay home June 7 and 8. A pro-Demochristian poster addressed itself to this apathy: HE WHO VOTES NOT, VOTES COMMUNIST...
...strolled through the woods with his dog, his secretary brought disturbing news. Negotiations for a solid anti-Communist alliance in next month's municipal elections in southern Italy were collapsing. The monarchists, probably the third largest party in the south, were demanding as their price for joining the Demochristian alliance that the neo-Fascist M.S.I. party also be admitted. Unless De Gasperi yielded, Rome, Naples and Bari might well elect Communist mayors and councils. A Red Rome next month might mean a Red Italy next year, at the general elections. Yet De Gasperi, for all his willingness to compromise...
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