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Magna Carta. Latin America's Christian Democrats share a common heritage with the powerful European Christian Democratic parties, led by Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Italy's late Premier Alcide de Gasperi. Like the Europeans, they base their philosophy on the famed Rerum Novarum encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, issued 70 years ago and known as "the Magna Carta of Labor" because it advocated labor unions and insisted that the state guarantee to the worker a fair share of the fruits of his labors...
Italy was in the midst of a government crisis again, created by the downfall of wispy, white-haired Premier Antonio Segni. But what seemed only an annual event (Premiers have averaged ten months in office since Italy's late great Alcide de Gasperi was defeated in 1953) became something more last week. Courteous, conservative Cesare Merzagora, 61, longtime president of Italy's Senate, dramatically posed a fundamental question: How healthy is Italy's 15-year-old postwar democracy...
Flood from the South. South Tyrol's 200,000 German-speaking people, subjects of the House of Habsburg for 555 years, never cottoned to the idea that they were Italian. At the end of World War II, the late Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi* agreed with Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Gruber to give the region autonomy within the Italian Republic, to allow German in the schools and in government offices, if the Austrians would consider the issue closed...
...confidence for his new government, Italian Premier Antonio Segni attacked those who were making "political capital" of the South Tyrol issue, insisted that it is a "matter that concerns Italy alone." He was promptly voted into office by 333-248, the biggest majority that any Italian Premier, even De Gasperi, has had since the war. Austrians were talking of carrying the matter to the United Nations, and were especially incensed at placards carried by Roman marchers showing Austria's famed gold-crowned black eagle as a chicken roasting on a spit. As a small sign of its displeasure, Austria...
Best known for his successful campaign to push through Italy's liberal land reform law, Segni in 1955 put together a Cabinet that lasted longer (22 months) than any since the heyday of the late Alcide de Gasperi. This time, with a Cabinet of Christian Democrats only, he hopes to be invested with the help, or the helpful abstention, of all Italy's right-wing parties, including the Liberals, Monarchists, and neoFascists...