Word: gasperi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleek, blue Lancia with bright red wheels, pale-faced Dr. Alcide de Gasperi rode through Rome last week to the closing session of the interim consultative assembly. As the Foreign Minister's car passed the round, ancient bulk of the Castel Sant' Angelo, a pistol bullet smashed through the Lancia's front windows...
Deep in thought Dr. de Gasperi absently murmured encouragement to his frightened chauffeur. At Montecitorio Palace Dr. de Gasperi, no paler than usual, said nothing of the attempt on his life. Reporters were told that he "resumed his thinking" a moment or so after the shot was fired...
...could find no evidence to support reports that the British are busy trying to bolster the House of Savoy. My conclusion, after long discussions with the best sources, is that the British policy is to let the people decide. One check for this view is Foreign Minister de Gasperi, who pointed out that if Britain were set on a monarchy, an attempt would have been made by the British to rebuild the Italian Army. This they have not done...
Trieste almost caused an Italian Cabinet crisis. The issue, embarrassing for practically everybody, is especially embarrassing for the Italian Communist Party, which has long walked on eggs in discreetly supporting Yugoslav claims to Trieste. When Foreign Minister Alcide de Gasperi declared: "The Allied troops have our full applause," Vice Premier Palmiro Togliatti (Italy's No. 1 Communist) attacked him: De Gasperi was acting too independently. Cried De Gasperi: "Foreign affairs are my business!" For hours the two ministers wrangled behind locked doors. At last Togliatti emerged to tell waiting correspondents: "Trieste is an Italian city, we all agree. Whether...
Hurriedly the Premier called his four-party (Christian Democrat, Labor Democrat, Liberal, Communist) Cabinet into session. Then Foreign Minister Alcide de Gasperi, chief of the Christian Democrats, handed Vice Premier Palmiro Togliatti. boss Communist, an ultimatum: call off the Communist attack on the Government, or resign. But the Communist Party ordered Togliatti not to resign...