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...Parliament, Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni, who often acts as a Communist cat's-paw, called for a vote of no-confidence in the Government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communists were preparing to re-enter the Government, where their disruptive power at this critical time would be greatly increased. The vote was postponed, but for Premier de Gasperi it was a close shave...
...Florence, city employees were on strike, in Messina the printers walked out. In Catanzaro it was the building workers, and in the Venetian province the railway and streetcar workers. In Terni, demonstrating workers carried posters denouncing the Pope as a "starver of the poor," and suggesting that Premier de Gasperi be hanged. Most serious of all was the battle of the fields: almost 1,000,000 agricultural laborers in the Po Valley were on strike, endangering Italy's desperately needed rice crop. In the cities, food rations were promptly reduced...
Present to hear this challenge to Christian Democratic Premier De Gasperi was Luigi Longo, Italian Communism's unofficial minister of war. As 32 of his well-organized partisan brigades paraded, he remarked tersely that this was "a solemn warning to those who need...
...aged (87) ex-Premier Orlando charged the Government with "a lust for servitude," thus throwing the sweltering chamber into screaming uproar. Meanwhile, Neo-Fascist Emilio Patrissi and Deputy Paolo Treves, a Saragattian Socialist, after a fistfight in the corridor, scheduled a duel the next day. Said Premier Alcide de Gasperi: "What counts most is that Italy gives a clear, honest and unreserved demonstration to walk the path of sacrifice toward a new dignity...
...glittering with papal titles, and a dazzling performance of A'ïda under the stars in the ancient Baths of Caracalla. Eva, in black flowered silk with a white fox cape, her hair, ear lobes and shapely neck glittering with diamonds, arrived on the arm of Premier de Gasperi just in time to delay the second act a full half-hour. Some of the paying guests were furious, but the Latin American diplomats, who had the best seats, cheered wildly...