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Word from Portugal. Gruff, heavy-spending Achille Lauro, multimillionaire owner of a huge merchant shipping fleet, staunch friend of the late Benito Mussolini and now the popular mayor of Naples, was the party's nominal head and principal bankroller (about $3,000,000 in contributions). Ex-Professor (of law) Alfredo Covelli, an expert parliamentarian and a good organizer, was secretary-general and real leader of the Monarchists...
...Chamber of Deputies. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti (143 seats) came first -he had not sat down with De Gasperi since the day in 1947 when De Gasperi threw the Reds out of his coalition. "We talked man to man." said De Gasperi later, but Togliatti kept "avoiding clarity." Achille Lauro, leader of the Monarchists (40 seats), was equally vague. How did he propose to restore a king to Italy? Lauro did not know. The leaders of the Neo-Fascists (29 seats) came equipped with "more sentiment than ideas." They talked of Trieste, reported De Gasperi, "in the friendly...
...minor brother in 1948, won more than 2,000,000 votes from De Gasperi's center. With their appeal for a return to the tawdry glories of Mussolini, the neo-Fascists won 29 Chamber seats. Biggest gainers were the Monarchists, led by Naples' wealthy, shipowning Mayor Achille Lauro, whose big promises and free handouts of spaghetti and clothes won 7% of the votes and 40 seats...
...Italy's first general-election campaign since 1948 went into the final week, two of the extremists' leaders, Communist Palmiro Togliatti and Monarchist Achille Lauro, took to their beds, white with exhaustion, but Premier Alcide de Gasperi, thinner and older (72) than either, seemed to gain strength. He abandoned his campaign train and took to the air, flying to Sardinia and Sicily to rally the voters...
...Europe have warned travelers to Naples to keep a firm hand on their luggage and an eye peeled for pickpockets. In the openly larcenous days of World War II, a pack of local thieves once made off with a whole shipload of sugar-ship & all. Last spring when Achille Lauro, Naples' wealthiest shipowner, took office as mayor, he promised to clean up the permanent Neapolitan crime wave. "We must operate like surgeons," he told his police force, who promptly went to work rounding up hundreds of pickpockets. Plainclothesmen roamed the streets in squads of three to watch for second...