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...Much Medicine? To combat disastrous postwar inflation, Premier Alcide de Gasperi's government three years ago had launched Italy on a course of courageous fiscal austerity. The government tried to spend as little as possible on public works, clamped severe restrictions on bank credit. These measures worked to stop inflation, stiffened the spine of the lira. But Italy, the ECA men say, has had an overdose of its fiscal medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Too Damn Cautious | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...mouse is Sicilian Mario Scelba. A lawyer and Popular Party worker before the war, he has emerged as the strongest anti-Communist force in Premier Alcide de Gasperi's coalition cabinet. He has rebuilt Italy's police into a wellarmed, well-disciplined force nearly a quarter-million strong; his famed celere, or motorized police, whizz through Italian cities in jeeps, cracking down relentlessly on Communist street brawlers. To Communists, he is Public Enemy Numero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Militant Mouse | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...Italy's Chamber of Deputies, politicians howled with anger at the U.S. "America now needs Tito more than De Gasperi," they shouted. "What is the value of the Atlantic pact?" The cause of their rage was U.S. unwillingness to give full support to Italian claims on the Free Territory of Trieste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIESTE: Choose Your Partner | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Italians asked what the U.S. was going to do about this. The answer, though gently phrased, seemed to be "Nothing." All Italy promptly broke into an uproar, and the prestige of Premier Alcide de Gasperi's government took a nose dive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIESTE: Choose Your Partner | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...last day of the congress, Italy's Premier Alcide de Gasperi made a final effort to break the deadlock, pleaded in earnest but halting French. "I appeal to our French and German friends: let your pace be fast and your vision wide." Then, switching to more fluent German, he added, "We must subordinate even our elections and the destinies of our Demo-christian parties to attaining this union." Despite De Gasperi's urgings, the congress wound up with only a vague, if unanimous, resolution declaring Christian Democracy's "unshakeable will to fight Communism in union . . . with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Without Program | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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