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DIED. Pietro Nenni, 88, Italian Socialist who, with Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi and Communist Palmiro Togliatti, founded the postwar Italian Republic; of a heart attack; in Rome. At 20, the silver-tongued Nenni was jailed for protesting Italy's invasion of Libya; his cell mate was Benito Mussolini, then a fellow Socialist. When il Duce came to power, Nenni, an ardent antiFascist, fled to France and later joined the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. After World War II he served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in Italy's first postwar government. His alliance...
...first ballot as candidate, and the 22nd of the election, Leone polled 503 votes, just one short of a majority. The candidate of the Marxists, Old Socialist Pietro Nenni, ran a poor second, with 408 votes. Next day, Leone finally made it with 518 votes-and without the support of the Communists, who had desperately wanted to be kingmakers. After a deadlock that left some Italians wondering whether their country was really ready for democracy, Italy at last had a President...
Exercise in Frustration. The latest crisis was precipitated by a split in Italy's fracture-prone Socialist Party. Until 1966 the Socialists functioned as two separate parties, Giuseppe Saragat's moderates and Pietro Nenni's leftists. They then closed ranks and served as one party in the center-left coalition. But last July they broke up again over the question of cooperating with the Communists in local governments. The moderates, who wanted to stay clear of the Communists, reconstituted themselves as the Social Democrats; Nenni's faction, figuring that the Communists had to be reckoned with...
Emerging temporarily from his self-imposed exile, Veteran Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni, 78, persuaded his fractured party to support the monocolore until a new coalition could be formed, possibly some time next spring...
...strengthen the center left government and push the social reforms that Italy badly needs, Nenni in 1966 agrees with the Social Democrats to reunite the old Socialist Party factions. It does not turn out to be a profitable reunion. In Italy's 1968 national elections left-wing voters disenchanted with the center-left government vote for the Communist Party, which picks up nearly 800,000 new votes. The Socialists lose four seats in the Chamber of Deputies...