Word: monarchistic
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...Alcide de Gasperi. But such denunciations did not deter wealthy Publisher Angelo Rizzoli, who is Italy's most unclassifiable political figure. Signer Rizzoli publishes Candido, a savagely satirical weekly edited by right-wing Novelist Giovanni (The Little World of Don Camillo) Guareschi; Oggi, a slightly milder weekly with Monarchist politics; L'Europeo, which leans slightly left of center. To round matters out, Rizzoli is a close personal friend of Pietro Nenni, fellow-traveling leader of Italy's Communist-captured Socialists, often entertains Nenni at his villa and aboard his yacht, and contributes heavily to the Red Socialists...
...Little World of Don Camilla, which tells of a gentle Italian priest's struggles with ungentle Communists, might picture the author as an amiable, chuckly type who would never have a hard word for anybody except Reds. Actually, Author-Journalist Giovanni Guareschi, 45, is a fierce monarchist, with a fierce mustache and a fierce tongue. Guareschi edits the brilliant satirical weekly, Candido, which pillories politicians of the center as well as those of the left. Three years ago, a Candido cartoon depicted President Einaudi (some of whose income is derived from vineyards) reviewing a troop of wine bottles. Caption...
...propaganda with the news. For example, L'Unità's elaborate coverage of the Wilma Montesi scandal last week was angled to fit in with the party's battle against the government. "I don't like L'Unità's politics," said one monarchist reader, "but it is readable and clear and tells you things other papers...
...Monarchist gains in recent elections...
Last week Madrid's large Monarchist daily A.B.C. was astir with feminine indignation over Spain's archaic laws on women. The indignation was set off by the account of a Madrid housewife who for years worked hard to support a drunkard husband and, though abused by him, could not leave him, having no money, no relatives, no place to go. In the end, the husband stabbed her to death. "This poor creature," cried an impassioned columnist in A.B.C., "paid with her life for the injustices of law made by man for men . . . Let her sacrifices bear the fruits...