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...Constituent Assembly Premier Alcide De Gasperi wanly faced a bitter opposition. Said he: "The land invasion is unjustified, because seeding time comes in November." Said World War I Finance Minister Francesco Nitti, 78: "De Gasperi is like the sick man who, when the doctors told him to give up wine, women, and song, answered, 'I'll do it very gradually. For the moment I'll give up song...
...Toronto's Saturday Night doubted whether anything he was doing in Paris was as important "as the contribution [he] can make to . . . Canada by returning [home]." Ottawa's Journal agreed: Mr. King at Paris "is seeing Mr. Bevin and Italy's Prime Minister Mr. de Gasperi. We wonder if Mr. King would not be serving Canada more usefully by . . . seeing Mr. Hilton of the Steel Company of Canada and Mr. Millard of the Steel Workers Union...
...what would happen when UNRRA, which now supplies 50% of Italy's food, goes out of business at the end of this year? De Gasperi asked LaGuardia to help him get a half billion dollar U.S. loan. The Little Flower's answer was typical: "I haven't got the money...
...Street. De Gasperi did not exaggerate the danger. A factory strike in Turin duplicated the general sitdown of 1922 which ushered in Mussolini. In Milan a jobless mob beat up municipal and police officials, and in Florence rowdies cut off the telephone central. Communist-dominated strikers at Mantua set up Soviet-like cells, prevented citizens from moving about unless they had passes signed by strike leaders...
...Gasperi spoke more bluntly. Citing the Mantua strike, he said, "One wonders what the next step might be-perhaps Fascist action squads...