Word: gasperi
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...Scelba dropped out of politics, lived as a none-too-successful criminal lawyer. In wartime, when the movement revived underground, he was arrested by the Nazis for publishing a clandestine newspaper. After the war, he was appointed a member of the Allied-controlled temporary Parliament. He became De Gasperi's Minister of Interior...
...scramble caused by another Premier's fall, the Christian Democrats groped for a new candidate to govern Italy. The key man in the operation turned out to be a practiced and familiar politico: Alcide de Gasperi...
Many thought 72-year-old De Gasperi, premier for eight years, had chosen the road to retirement after his fall last summer. He seemed content, after a period of rest, to run the Christian Democrats from the secretary general's office and let others sit in the Premier's palazzo. But, as Italian politicians became increasingly aware, De Gasperi had no intention whatever of fading away. Colleagues were convinced that, given the proper time & place and good prospects of success, nothing would please the old leader more than to be called once again to form a government. Until...
Politician De Gasperi adroitly stayed out of this blame throwing, but was not neglected by the blame throwers. Pella's supporters say that De Gasperi let them down in January when Pella tried to transform his caretaker government into a more permanent one. Now that the party was in trouble, many others who once sang De Gasperi's praises criticized him. They blamed the election setbacks on De Gasperi's electoral-reform law, which he himself now concedes to have been a mistake. They acknowledged the greatness of De Gasperi's 1948 triumph and admired...
...Fanfani." Close to 6 on a rainy afternoon, word got around that the two most dramatic antagonists in Italy, Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti and Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi, would meet in parliamentary combat. The galleries filled up and the chamber hushed for the performance of Italy's brilliant Red orator...