Word: fanfani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...April 28-29 election were only a personal popularity contest, short (5 ft. 1 in.), mustachioed Premier Amintore Fanfani, 55, might find himself out of a job. Fanfani is shrewd, not simpatico; behind his back, critics call him and his aides i bassotti (the dachshunds). More than Fanfani's looks and cold political style are against him. A 6% jump in living costs last year touched off a prolonged wave of strikes by industrial and whitecollar workers; fortnight ago, 5,000,000 workers quit their jobs in a one-day general walkout. Fanfani's year-old partnership with...
Item. In that same interval, Premier Amintore Fanfani returned from a visit to the White House and told the Italian Parliament that the Franco-German Treaty was a "menace". He stated explicitly that the President of the United States felt the same way. It can therefore be inferred (and was inferred) that the speech was cleared if not written in Washington. Similar statements were soon heard from the Benelux powers...
...problem is the personality of General de Gaulle. We are not only against his methods but also against his reasons, which are false." If Britain is left out, declared Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns, "the idea of a united Europe will be in crisis." Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani called it a menace to NATO itself...
Last week Fanfani acted. After nine hours of argument, Christian Democrats and their two smaller coalition partners agreed to introduce promptly two bills covering taxation and administration of the regions; they postponed legislation actually creating them until a new Parliament convenes after national elections...
...going to be a government crisis," he told a meeting of his party's central committee, "it's not going to be caused by us." Nenni has his eye on a Cabinet post in a new government; causing a crisis at the moment would be irresponsible, for Fanfani this week goes off to visit John F. Kennedy, and in a fortnight Harold Macmillan arrives in Rome. Fellow travelers in the Socialist high command were willing, even anxious, to topple the government, but as the party continued its talks at week's end, it appeared that Nenni...