Word: nenni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collapse came in the Chamber of Deputies over a negligible item in the budget-the provision of $238,000 in aid to private schools, which are mostly Roman Catholic. The Socialists, led by Veteran Pietro Nenni and, as always, anticlerical, abstained. But this time they were joined in their abstention by an odd lot of Communists, Liberals, Monarchists and Neo-Fascists. Even worse for Moro, at least ten of his own Christian Democratic Deputies left the chamber before the roll call. As a result, the government fell four short of a majority...
...remain in office until a new government could be formed. It may take some doing, since Moro has long been under fire from right-wing members of his Christian Democratic Party, who resent the "opening to the left" through which Moro brought the Socialists into the government. Socialist Nenni has been under equally sharp fire from leftists who charge that he has given in to Moro time after time on what were fundamental Socialist demands...
...prison, another time to bless a crowd gathered in the village of Acilia. At the windswept airport the Pope shook hands with a platform-full of dignitaries, including Italian President Antonio Segni and Premier Aldo Moro. Clearly enjoying his venture, the Pope blessed the crowd (tough old Socialist Pietro Nenni, Italy's Vice Premier, conspicuously refused to cross himself) before taking his seat in the Vatican-chartered Alitalia...
When Italy's Pietro Nenni was asked last year what price he demanded in return for supporting a center-left coalition government, the old Socialist leader growled: "The head of Giorgio Valerio." The head belongs to the aristocratic managing director of Societa Edison, then Italy's largest public utility holding company. Nenni got his price-the country's power industry was nationalized-but Giorgio Valerio kept his head, and is busy proving that he knows very well...
...deal was promptly and bitterly attacked by foes from all sides. Nenni's pro-Communist wing continued to denounce it as a sellout to the bourgeoisie. Liberal Spokesman Giovanni Malagodi said the coalition heads Italy "directly toward Communist shores." Comrade Palmiro Togliatti sneered at Nenni's claim that the Socialists would change things once they got into government, and snapped: "We could define such a vision of power as Stalinist...