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Monarchists gained. Pudgy, bustling Guglielmo Giannini, who skyrocketed his weekly Uomo Qualunque (The Common Man) to an 800,000 circulation by jeering at politicians, finally went political. A day before his Uomo Qualunque anti-politico movement was to hold its first national convention, he joined the monarchist Partito Democratico Italiano...
...Gianninis, not related, helped bring the crisis to a head. In Milan, Editor Guglielmo Giannini's Uomo Qualunque (TIME, Nov. 26) insistently demanded a new government of nonpoliticians. In Rome, gruff U.S. Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini of California's Bank of America answered a Parri Government request for credits with "Italy's present precarious situation does not permit the safe investment of capital. . . . Without a strong government you will be unable to prevent rioting...
...Guglielmo Giannini, ex-theatrical producer, was deeply gratified. Expansively he placed the number of his followers at 2,000,000. Disavowing all parties ("We look to them to control our doings with never-ending vigilance lest we too make fools of ourselves"), Uomo Qualunque looked as though it might become one of Italy's biggest parties itself...
...country's tangled politics and its faction-shaded parties (six are represented in the Government) with disgust and fear. Symptomatically, Italy's most widely read topical weekly is Rome's three-lire Uomo Qualunque (Common Man or Man-in-the-Street). Its founder and editor: Guglielmo Giannini, a theatrical producer, never a politician...
...night last August a mob of Negro stevedore soldiers at Fort Lawton, Wash., stormed into a barracks occupied by paroled Italian prisoners of war. The Negroes, brooding over special privileges shown the POWs, were armed with "knives, clubs, trench shovels, axes, stones." After MPs had quelled the brawl, Italian Guglielmo Olivotto was found in a gully near by, hanged by the neck and dead...