Word: matteotti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marxist theory, but were unable even to agree on a platform for Italy's general elections, now only six months off. After years of unchallenged dominance of the party, moody, long-faced Giuseppe Saragat, 59, twice Vice Premier of Italy, was seriously threatened by 36-year-old Matteo Matteotti, whose only program was unification after the elections. Matteotti did not explain how Social Democrats could win votes by, in effect, promising to become Nenni Socialists right after elections...
...over Europe. "This is a great achievement," said French Socialist Senator Pierre Commin, the man who persuaded Nenni and Saragat to begin their merger negotiations (TIME. Sept. 10). Britain's Nye Bevan was present and beaming. "A great day for Italian Socialism," glowed Social Democratic Party Secretary Matteo Matteotti...
Young Matteo Matteotti, bone-bred Socialist that he was, was nonetheless outraged by the alliance which Socialist Party Leader Pietro Nenni had just made with the Communists. Sadly, Matteotti charged Nenni with spreading "fear and terrorism" in the party. Then, amidst cries of "degenerate son," he stalked out to help organize a splinter group, which eventually became the anti-Communist Social Democratic Party...
...years that followed, Nenni and Matteotti brushed past each other in the halls of the Italian Parliament without speaking. Last week, in the same Rome University building in which the 1947 split occurred, wily, aging (65) Pietro Nenni and 35-year-old Matteo Matteotti, now secretary of the Social Democratic Party, were once again in conversation...
Many Social Democrats, including Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, the party's leader, were far from happy to see Matteotti negotiating with Stalin Peace Prize winner Nenni. And right from the start, Nenni flatly refused to meet the most critical Social Democratic condition for collaboration-a demand that he break his "unity of action" pact with the Communists. Matteotti, carefully leaving the door open to further negotiations, said that the first round of talks produced "no ruptures and no miracles." At week's end, however, Saragat stepped in to make it clear that neither he nor the Social Democratic...