Word: gasperi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With luck, the new Cabinet will last until the new elections in April 1968. This would make Moro runner-up for the postwar endurance championship among Italian Prime Ministers, after the late Alcide de Gasperi, who resigned in 1953. However, Italian politicians, especially Christian Democrats, dislike strong leaders, and they will be doubly tempted to cut Moro down-just as they did De Gasperi. Observed one Roman: "Aldo Moro is the father of his party right now, but it's risky being Papa if your children have an Oedipus complex...
...imposed upon the Italian people by the Fascist dictator and his cronies. After the war, when the horrors of the Fascist regime came more apparently to the surface, I felt ashamed, bitter and miserable. The pride in being an Italian stayed with me because there were men like De Gasperi, Pope Pius and Pope John, who reminded me that there is a time when a country can go mad, and a time when it can reach the highest degree of greatness...
...Loren and an 88-year-old actress named Emma Gramatica. One man dropped his laundry list in the ballot box, another a letter from his wife, a third a job request from a constituent. One Deputy made a posthumous appeal to the late great Christian Democratic Premier Alcide de Gasperi by writing on his ballot: "De Gasperi, save Italy...
...next chance came when he tried to win at the polls in the 1948 election. The Communists polled 30% of the popular vote, and were turned back by the strong leadership of Alcide de Gasperi, Italy's great Christian Democratic Premier, who was backed by the forceful anti-Communist intervention of Pope Pius...
...country lawyer, Fanfani learned his political arts hopping from ministry to ministry under the late Premier Alcide de Gasperi, acquired such a grip on the Christian Democratic Party reins that De Gasperi once complained: "If I appoint him Minister of Industry, I am sure that some day, on opening the door to my office, I'll find him sitting at my desk." Fanfani did just that, but only after De Gasperi was ailing and in semiretirement. Fanfani's first premiership lasted only eleven days in 1954, his second for a frustrating 210 days that ended in 1959 when...