Word: malagodi
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...more conservative members of the Christian Democratic Party. Some of his critics grudgingly conceded that despite its leftward lean, Fanfani's Cabinet struck a "perfect balance." Absent from the government coalition were the Liberals, Italy's nearest equivalent to a free-enterprise party. Sighed Liberal Leader Giuseppe Malagodi: "Every nation in Europe seems to have tried the socialist adventure. Now it is Italy's turn...
...majorities where they may, or they will have to scout up allies from at least two parties. Possible combinations: join with the free-enterprising Liberals and the Monarchists to form a government leaning to the right, or try to enlist in a center coalition both Giovanni Malagodi's Liberals and Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats, whose leaders dislike each other. First the Christian Democrats must choose one of their own to be Premier...
Lions & Asses. Dry and dignified in manner, Whistle Stopper Malagodi nonetheless delivers incisive assaults. Of the Communists he says: "They hold one-third of the Italian electorate prisoner in the grip of a foreign ideology. We must free them for the politics of free men." Wealthy Monarchist Achille Lauro (TIME, Dec. 30), whose campaign caravan includes two lion cubs, is dismissed by Malagodi with the private comment: "He may travel with lions, but he has asses for candidates." Some of Malagodi's sharpest blows have been struck at the Christian Democrats, whose stand on church v. state has become...
Fanfani's Worry. This gadfly role has drawn upon Malagodi the combined fire of all Italy's major parties. The Communists rarely let a day pass without belaboring him as "a tool of big business." Amintore Fanfani, the busy little boss of the Christian Democrats, has publicly threatened to exclude the Liberals from future Cabinets. (Says Malagodi, chortling, "Fanfani's palms are sweating...
Should that happen-and many Italian pundits believe it will-the Christian Democrats, for all Fanfani's threats, will almost certainly need Liberal support to form a government, and to obtain it will have to pay more heed to the gadfly voice of Giovanni Malagodi. "The reawakening of the Liberal Party," declared Rome's Il Messaggero last week, "constitutes the one new fact in this campaign . . . and it augurs well for Italian democracy...