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...most to shape and promote the EDC idea. First, down went Good European Robert Schuman, France's longtime Foreign Minister. He was thrown aside because France, tortured by division and illusion, turned in confusion and fear from its own brain child. Next went Good European Alcide de Gasperi, and Italy's ratification became questionable. The death of Stalin, and Churchill's insistence on sounding out the dictator's successor, gave the French more opportunity to haggle and hesitate. The EDC idea was close to dying...
...Sept. 6, the people of West Germany walked up to two doors to the future. Which would they choose? Western diplomats, disheartened by the fall of Schuman and De Gasperi, guessed timidly that Adenauer and the dream of Europe would squeak through-but barely. But the old man in the high, starched collar simply rode up to his Rhondorf home, went off to Sunday Mass, left orders not to be disturbed, and at day's end turned in for a long night's sleep...
...Sicilian packinghouse worker, Giorgio La Pira, 49, worked his way through law school, moved to Florence 29 years ago. He was an Under Secretary of Labor in Alcide de Gasperi's Cabinet, but left because he could not promote enough backing for his full-employment ideas (he wanted jobs-made work if necessary-for all of Italy's 2,000,000 unemployed). He believes everyone is entitled to "a job, a house, and music." As Demo-Christian candidate for Florence's mayoralty two years ago, he blasted the Communists loose from a five-year grip...
...Italy was propelled into her worst political crisis since the war when Premier Alcide de Gasperi...
...parliamentary deputy; a year later Luigi Einaudi, now Italy's President, took him into the Finance Ministry to help promote his hard-money policy. Pella took with him his boyhood concern for pennies and his businessman's love for the solid lira, and soon became De Gasperi's Finance Minister. To keep the lira stable, he fought tenaciously against many of his party who wanted vote-catching spending programs. Once, in 1951, he resigned rather than give in, bringing the government down with him. De Gasperi formed a new Cabinet and persuaded Pella to come back...