Word: gasperi
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...Christian Democratic planes showered leaflets. At one meeting, thousands of clenched fists shook angrily at the dark sky; men picked up the fluttering leaflets and, without a glance at their words, lighted them with matches-a hundred little torches blazing in the gloom. The Church helped Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democrats as never before. Said one priest from the pulpit: "He who fails to vote commits a most grievous sin. Catholics must see that Christ's cross and not the hammer & sickle rises above the Campanile of Capitol Hill...
...focus of Western Europe's crisis was Italy. For the past month, the Communists had tried, through strikes and economic disruption, to overthrow il governo nero (the "black Government," i.e., Christian Democratic Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Cabinet). Then for nine days Communist Palmiro Togliatti and Socialist Pietro Nenni attacked De Gasperi in the Assembly. At 2:30 a.m. one day last week, came the showdown...
...three motions of no-confidence in the Government were introduced. De Gasperi got by with margins of 93, 47 and 34 votes successively. The Government was strengthened by a dramatic message from Washington that the U.S. had given up its share of Italian warships, awarded to the U.S. under the peace treaty. The Communists, seeing that De Gasperi was safe for the time being, withdrew their own no-confidence motion. The left's obvious strategy: to pin Italy's economic troubles on the Government as an excuse for further strikes and strife. Cried Nenni to De Gasperi...
...Dust. In Monza, Palmiro Togliatti threatened revolution. Speaking while a red setting sun shone through the reddish dust stirred up by a crowd of more than 500,000 workers, the Communist leader attacked the U.S. and the De Gasperi Government...
...crowd broke into uproarious laughter and cries of "Death to De Gasperi-hang him in the Piazza, Loreto!" (where Mussolini was strung up), and "Death to Truman...