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...will soon return to Italy to make a movie for Britain's Sir Alexander Korda -based on Luigi Pirandello's difficult Henry IV. Says Welles: "So much first-rate talent is going in the direction of the literal. I don't even like the word 'documentary.' You can't go on proving that a rusty faucet is rusty and a dirty alley is dirty. They are using the camera as a recording instrument. I want to use it as an instrument of poetry...
...will of God be done," said Luigi Einaudi one day last week. He had just been told that he had been elected President of the new Italian Republic. "May Italians never have to reproach me for the pride that I feel at this moment." He had not sought the office. Then he thought of the inauguration to come next day. In consternation he exclaimed: "But I don't have a black suit-only this grey one and my tweeds...
...national election pool, one Luigi Prato, of Valenza, a pessimistic member of the Popular Front, accurately guessed the number of seats the Popular Front would receive in the Chamber. By betting against his own side...
...soon a message went out from Communist headquarters to "stop moping." Palmiro Togliatti gave out the official excuse for the defeat: the elections had not been free-the U.S. and the Vatican had interfered. Said Luigi Longo, who commands the Red partisans: "The election was not a Waterloo, but just a lost battle . . . The relations between the government and the people will go through dangerous tensions . . . We will collect the fruits of our labors at some future date...
After World War I, De Gasperi joined the Popular Party (Christian Democratic) founded by Don Luigi Sturzo. A Sicilian priest, Sturzo was convinced that Christianity, in order to survive in the 20th Century, must rely on "good deeds" of a new kind-social and political action...