Word: gasperi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scholarly Alcide de Gasperi has one hobby: mountain climbing. But no rock wall he ever encountered gave him the trouble he experienced last week in forming a new government for Italy...
When Crown Prince Umberto, Lieutenant General of the Realm, named him Premier to succeed Ferrucio Parri, De Gasperi was ill with influenza. At first, propped up in bed, sneezing and rheumy-eyed, he haggled with fellow politicians. Then, pale and weak, he left his bedchamber for day-&-night sessions in the Chigi Palace. Punctually at 7 each morning a neighbor's phonograph woke...
...tremendous new vitality in parties akin to M.R.P. In Norway and Denmark similar groups, with a Lutheran instead of a Catholic background, also showed gains. In Italy, although no election had been held, the same strengthening of the center was registered by the choice of Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi to form a new Cabinet...
...Christian Democrats and Labor Democrats walked out on the Actionists, Socialists and Communists. The six parties seemed irreparably parted. Cried Benedetto Croce's Liberals: "The era of antifascism should end, giving way to a new, peaceful constructive era of post-fascism. . . ." Protested Christian Democrat leader Alcide de Gasperi: "Fascism will never happen again. Never." Growled Pietro Nenni's Socialists: Italian reaction, egged on by Anglo-American capital, was plotting to swing Italy back to the old conservatism...
Minister de Gasperi was on his way to a session of Italy's first free meeting of political minds since Mussolini abolished parliamentary government 20 years ago. It was also the first to hear a woman's voice. Said good-looking Anna Maria Cingolani, a Christian Democrat and one of deeply Catholic Italy's new feminists...