Word: gasperi
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...Gasperi and Schuman...
...Pinay and de Gasperi...
Italy was the pleasantest stop. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, one of the most zealous champions of European unification, virtually guaranteed that Italy would approve the European defense treaty...
Deadly Adventure. The measure before the house was admittedly controversial, and inspired misgivings even among some of De Gasperi's Demo-Christian coalition. By a formula so complex that it took two mathematicians and a handful of political scientists three months to work it out, De Gasperi's proposal would give 64% of the seats in the Chamber to any party or coalition which wins more than 50% of the vote. De Gasperi, whose own devotion to minority rights was hardened during his long years in opposition to Mussolini, is reluctantly convinced that democracy can survive in Italy...
Moving Furniture. To put an end to all the stalling, De Gasperi demanded a vote of confidence. That automatically restricted deputies to one final speech apiece, and inside & outside the Chamber Togliatti's toughs made the most of it. They touched off a riotous general strike which filled the streets of Italy's biggest cities with the sounds of surging crowds, police sirens and thudding truncheons. As the Chamber went into a nonstop session, the Reds monopolized the sofas and emergency cots set up in the Chamber, so that tired non-Communist deputies could not catch cat naps...