Word: gasperi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ideal of Conspiracy." Quietly the Communists had mobilized buses and trucks all over Italy. Before the government of Christian Democrat Premier Alcide de Gasperi quite knew what was up, thousands of partisans (mostly Communist) had converged on the capital. People who could remember 1922 thought that it made Mussolini's march on Rome look like a clumsy straggle of Boy Scouts...
...National Italian Partisans Association and a distinguished guest, General Sidor Kovpak, vice president of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. Six abreast in precise lines, the Reds swung along under their mingled banners: the green & white flag of Italy and the red hammer & sickle. "Viva Stalin. . . . Death to De Gasperi!" shouted the fur-capped Ligurian Brigade as it passed the garish white marble monument to the Unknown Soldier. Italian partisans cheered the words of their leader, Luigi Longo: "We do not consider ourselves museum pieces. ... In our hearts are intact the enthusiasm and ideals of conspiracy and of insurrection...
More than 200,000 Roman workers stayed away from their jobs the first morning. Communist demonstrators filled the squares, but the De Gasperi government-rather to the general surprise-had done some stage-setting, too. A battalion of regular army troops with full field equipment took up positions in the Piazza Colonna. Armored cars and fast police jeeps rolled through the streets. When a demonstration was expected at the Ministry of the Interior, firemen played a few jets of cold water through the air. There was no demonstration...
Italy's embattled Premier Alcide de Gasperi retired to bed for a spell with arthritis...
...dangers of uncontrolled inflation. And the first results have been enough to give them hope that Italy-if provided with U.S. raw materials-may finally have a program that will cure her sick economy. The final success of the program will depend on the skill with which the De Gasperi government can combat the rule-or-ruin tactics of the Communists (see FOREIGN NEWS). But the program's first success last week was measured by the energy, bordering on fury, with which the Communists were trying to disrupt an economy which was showing the first dangerous signs of recovery...