Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Sardinian, a lean, fragile lawyer with a beaked nose and unruly white hair, had just been summoned by Italian President Gronchi to try to form a new government to replace the fallen Mario Scelba (TIME, July 4). Earnest Christian Democrat Segni, as Minister of Agriculture in several De Gasperi governments, drew up Italy's postwar land-reform program, but was less of a success at administering it.* He accepted Gronchi's commission early last week and from his paper-strewn apartment on the Via Sallustiana set about canvassing the three small center parties in hopes...
Segni's first problem was to persuade the bickering factions inside his own Christian Democrat Party to lay aside the differences that had brought down Scelba. After making some moves in this direction, he went to work on the Social Democrats (19 seats), the Republicans (5 seats), the Liberals (14 seats). For four days he scurried around a sweltering Rome, bargaining and counterbargaining. As courtesy required, he also paid a call on Stalin Prizewinner Pietro Nenni, who is panting to bring his fellow-traveling Socialists into a popular front. Segni rejected Nenni's offer; there are Christian Democrats...
What if Eisenhower does not run next year? Last week one California Republican wryly cracked that almost everyone in the state is happy and optimistic except G.O.P. leaders, who are worried to ulcers about what will happen if Ike steps out. Said a Democrat on Capitol Hill: "If Ike doesn't run in '56, it won't make any difference whom the Republicans nominate; the convention won't be over in time for the election." At times, the President frightens party leaders by acting as if he is determined to retire to his farm at Gettysburg...
Pella smoothly agreed with Fanfani's proposal and then indicated his real interest. "If we had a one-party government, there would be no preliminary bargaining. Then Christian Democracy could courageously face the problems it wants to solve." On some issues, Pella added blandly, a Christian Democrat government would need "outside help, but at any rate the government would not be a wavering reed in the wind, but an attracting force for the country." In other words, the Concentration would accept Fanfani's program not because they approved it, but because they were sure the minor coalition parties...
...fund-raising tour of the big-money, free-spending state of Texas, Democrat Butler grossed only about $25,000. At Lubbock, for his first speech ($10 a head, dinner included). 1,000 people were expected, but only 400 came. At Big Spring, he drew 150. Yet Texas was not entirely hostile territory. At Dallas, where Butler cut a three-foot cake (for his 50th birthday), 1,200 people showed up to eat and cheer. At Uvalde. former Vice President John Nance Garner, 86, who has puttered in privacy for 14 years amidst his pecan trees and chickens, surprisingly opened...