Word: governo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...final tally this week showed 2,755 votes for the Marxists, 2,020 for the Popular Alliance. Communist Gasperoni could count for four more years on 33 of the republic's 60 representatives. From the Palazzo del Governo, in which stands the statue of San Marino's foremost honorary citizen, Abraham Lincoln, the blue and white flag of Sammarinese liberty fluttered-and beside it, the Red Flag with hammer & sickle...
...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...