Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hungry Angels. Against these men and their human machine stood great forces. One was the force symbolized by the U.S. Embassy. Italians like America; they have at least an inkling of what American democracy is about. How, then, were the Communists able to stand up against American influence? Partly it was America's own doing. The U.S. had never effectively advertised the nature or the extensive amount of its help, or the peaceful intentions of its purpose. Above all, the U.S. was remote and rich. The Communists adroitly played on these facts, and on Italy's fears...
Then there was the force symbolized by the Vatican's majestic citadel. Perhaps the most significant political event of recent times was the Vatican's decision, while waiting for the City of God, to fight once more for the City of Man. It had openly entered politics. Italian priests issued a solemn warning: Communism is sin. Could the Communists stand up against such a moral thunderbolt...
...some ways, a strange champion. He was 67, and in frail health. He was born the son of a petty Austrian official and a subject of His Apostolic Majesty, Francis Joseph (his birthplace near Trento belonged to Austria until after World War I). He had been active in the Italian nationalism movement as a student at the University of Innsbruck. But he was a rambling speaker and a rambling organizer, and he had a lifelong reputation as a compromiser...
...Rome passers-by heard a beggar cry: "Just for a few days more, please. After April 18, I will never need anything again." A good many Italians felt like the beggar, but they were wrong. A Communist defeat would not settle Italy's problems or eliminate the Communists from the Italian scene. It would merely give the West and Alcide de Gasperi a reprieve, another chance to do better...
...Italian Elections (Sun. beginning 9 a.m., all networks). Periodic reports from Rome throughout...