Word: gasperi
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...clock one morning last week, Italy's Communists, fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists and their strange allies, the monarcho-fascists, opened their last-ditch battle against Premier Alcide de Gasperi's electoral reform bill. Not until 76 hectic hours later did the battle end. The chamber of the Italian Senate by then was a shambles of broken chairs, torn books and blood spatters; at least a dozen wounded Senators and Cabinet Ministers stumbled about in the wreckage. But the unholy alliance had lost and refused even to cast its votes. The final vote...
...vote finally taken, De Gasperi's government was free to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies and call for new nationwide elections, to be held probably June 7. Under the new law, any party or coalition which polls more than 50% of the vote will now get 64% of the seats in the Chamber...
...rooms and over green baize tables in a 16th-century Roman villa, EDC's two most fervent champions teamed up to save the dream of a six-nation internationalized army. Switching dexterously from Italian to French to old-fashioned but serviceable German, Italy's Premier Alcide de Gasperi worked on French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and other ministers behind the scenes...
...Under De Gasperi's private urgings and Adenauer's public alarms, Georges Bidault, the diplomat with the Mona Lisa smile, announced that France had no intention of reneging on the EDC idea, which it had proposed in the first place. It considered its "protocols" to be not amendments to the treaty, said Bidault, but only "interpretive" addenda which need not be ratified, need not even cause any delay in prompt ratification of the treaty in the six West European Parliaments. What is more, said he, France is perfectly willing to consider changes in the "protocols" themselves...
...Rome conference broke up in a sunburst of optimism. "I am confident," beamed De Gasperi, "that all six powers will ratify the treaty by this summer...