Word: gasperi
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...critic of the U.S., dissented on the ground that Eisenhower was conceding "nothing at all"). In France, the non-Communist press applauded ("historic discourse . . . appeals to good will") while the Communist press struck the only sour note ("preachifying is mingled with . . . unreasonable demands"). In Italy, Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi called it "honest and vigorous." Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, coming to the end of his U.S. visit, was enthusiastic; so, back home, was his Socialist opponent, Eric Ollenhauer...
...left the Metropolitan Opera Company and the U.S. in high dudgeon in 1939 after making cooing sounds about progress under Mussolini's Fascists, announced his interest in the current political score. He will be a candidate for a seat in the new Chamber of Deputies on Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democratic ticket in the June elections...
...solid 100-man obstructionist bloc in the Senate, and golden opportunities for delaying and debauching the democratic process, as they proved in the Palm Sunday rumpus over electoral reform (TIME, April 6), when furniture flew and members grappled. Last week, the time and opportunity ripe, Premier Alcide .de Gasperi decided to move against his Communist enemies in the Senate. Five years having passed since the last election, it was constitutionally mandatory to dissolve the lower Chamber and order a new election; Senators serve for six years, and still have a year to go. But De Gasperi had had enough...
Dissolution automatically canceled the seats of all Red Senators "by right," and the Communists roared with anger. De Gasperi replied: "We have been the target of attacks, the butt of calumny and insults for days and nights, weeks and months. We kept silent . . . This reserve of ours may have made our opponents believe that we lacked both arguments and courage. I hope they have been enlightened...
...five years, De Gasperi's Christian-Democratic (Catholic) Party, and the three parties which work in partnership with him, have had a substantial majority (63.7%) in the Chamber. But the strength of Italy's antidemocrats at both ends of the spectrum, the Communists and the monarcho-fascists, is growing. De Gasperi fears what he recently called "the prospect of the two extreme wings joining hands to create . . . a paralysis of the parliamentary system." Though many democrats are disquieted by the reform law, De Gasperi argues that democracy must be made secure enough to survive...