Word: nenni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since Premier Amintore Fanfani teamed up with Pietro Nenni's Socialists almost a year ago to form Italy's apertura a sinistra ("opening to the left"), the uneasy alliance has been clouded by a single issue: Nenni's demand for the creation of 15 regional administrations that he figures will boost his party's grass-roots support. Fanfani agreed to pay Nenni's price because he needed the Socialists' 88 votes in the Chamber of Deputies in order to stay in power, but he stalled on enacting the scheme just the same...
Fanfani feared that the Socialists would sign local electoral agreements with Communists and thereby convert the new regions into leftist strongholds. Even after Nenni pledged not to cooperate with the Reds, many of Fanfani's Christian Democrats remained skeptical of his promise. With Nenni demanding quick action on the regional plan, the looming alternative was compromise or collapse of the coalition...
Politics in the Oil. Because Mattei was a national hero, Fanfani had to give the appearance of preserving his policies. As usual, there was plenty of politics mixed in the oil. E.N.I, in its freewheeling way is much admired by the Nenni Socialists, whose displeasure could bring down Fanfani's precariously balanced Cabinet. Many Italian politicos are beholden to E.N.I., which under Mattei practiced a deft and munificent nonpartisanship. E.N.I, was one of the largest contributors to Fanfani's Christian-Democratic Party, gave generously to other political parties. Italian politicians who could find time to write reports...
...West European most pained by the Cuban crisis was Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani. whose political alliance with Pietro Nenni's Socialists is already strained by membership in NATO, which Nenni dislikes. To get involved in Cuba could be death to his center-left coalition regime; so Fanfani confined his comments on the U.S. action to such safe words as, "Italy judges as positive that, in a moment when loud alarms are sounded, the U.S. has requested the United Nations to intervene in order that the causes of this alarm might be eliminated...
Angrily, Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti called Nenni's program a "serious and grave" threat "to isolate not the Communist Party, but the whole working class." As further proof of their injury, the Reds turned to petty insult, stopped calling Nenni "Comrade," a salutation they have used since World...