Word: nenni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pity the poor Socialists. They always seem to get into trouble when they move out of the old ideologist neighborhood and associate with Center parties. Even more than Willy Brandt's Socialists in West Germany's recent state elections, Pietro Nenni's Socialist Party suffered a serious setback in the Italian elections...
Miracle Without Fizz. Onetime Marxist Nenni had struck a courageous and dangerous bargain five years ago when he took his Socialist Party into a Center-Left coalition with Italy's dominant Christian Democrats. Hoping to move the Christian Democrats to do far more for Italy's middle-class and poor citizens, Nenni cut his ties with the powerful Communist Party, merged with the moderate Social Democrats, abandoned his opposition to Italy's participation in NATO, and even took an "understanding" position toward the U.S. role in Viet Nam. In return, the Christian Democrats promised improvements in housing...
...modern world," says Italy's Vice Premier and Socialist Party Leader Pietro Nenni, "political movements are constituted less around general ideas and more around real problems, real demands." Thus it was last week that Nenni's Socialists, addressing themselves to a very real problem of votes, reunited with the Social Democratic Party of Italian President Giuseppe Saragat...
...reconciliation - combining Italy's third and fifth largest parties - came 19 years after Saragat led his moderate, democratic faction out of the main par ty, in protest against a Nenni alliance with the Communists. Over the years, Soviet repression in Hungary and elsewhere changed Nenni's mind about the Reds, and in 1957 he split with the Communists and began the first of his many talks with Saragat about reuniting the two parties. In 1963, when Nenni and Saragat joined the Christian Democrats in Italy's center-left coalition government, the two party leaders finally began talking...
...Unified," will meet in the Sports Palace outside Rome to draw up a constitution. Representing some 6,000,000 voters, the new party will start life with 95 Deputies and 46 Senators-still far behind the Christian Democrats (260 Deputies, 134 Senators) and the Communists (166 Deputies, 83 Senators). Nenni, who will take over as the new party president, feels the simple fact of socialist unity will help with policies that appeal more and more to middle-class voters. The Socialists expect that the day will come when they can eat heavily into the strength of the powerful Christian Democrats...