Word: gasperi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voter faces a multiplicity of choices on the ballot, chief among which are: the steadily growing neo-Fascist organization, Nationalistic Social Movement; Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democrats, the party now in power, backed by the Vatican and the United States; Saragat's right-wing Socialists, who recently broke away from the Nenni left-wing, which is combined with Togliatti's Communists in the Democratic Front...
Limited Help. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, campaigning (by airplane) up & down Italy, left no doubt that Rome's show of force was no empty gesture. With unexpected vigor, he exhorted Italians not to let themselves be scared away from the polls by Communist rough stuff. His theme: either all will vote freely, or none will vote at all. Shivering in a chill spring wind that swept across the ruins of Monte Cassino, he cried: "Form a bulwark! . . . Defend Italy. . . . Vote for Italy. . . ." In Sardinia, before stocking-capped old peasants and natty coal miners fresh from their showers, he said...
...Anne McCormick had trotted around five nations, talking with the men in the chancelleries and the man in the street. She had scored no Page One beats and hunted no headlines; her job was to help Times readers understand the headlines. She had sat down with Italian Premier de Gasperi, found that he "has grown notably in office . . . the moderator has turned into a resourceful fighter." Astutely she had backgrounded the abortive Foreign Ministers' Conference. ("This . . . will go down in history as the last gesture of the victors to the pretense of a community of aims that never existed...
...Rome, Ambassador James C. Dunn tried to make the best case he could for U.S. democracy. He pointed to U.S. generosity with money and supplies. But Washington gave no public sign that it would back the De Gasperi government up to the hilt against any attempted Communist coup. And yet a victory for Communism in Italy would mean that the cold war, which the U.S. once thought it was winning, would get uncomfortably warm...
Supporters of De Gasperi's Christian Democrats candidly viewed the Pescara preview as a warning of the Front's Strength. Warned Risorgimento: "A typical town . . . that represents a good crosssection of the Italian population has given almost half its vote to the Front. . . . There can be little illusion that unless something is done, the national political elections will have similar results...