Word: nenni
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...apostate and excommunicated if you vote for the Communists." But in a land where many of the people are at once Roman Catholic and anticlerical, the Vatican is being discreet. Communists are embarrassed by the dethroning of Stalin, but Communism's fellow-traveling allies, the Socialists of Pietro Nenni, are expected to do well. Four crucial races...
...Gasperi founded the new Christian Democratic Party. Elected President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1948, an office he held until 1955, when he was elected Italy's President over the opposition of his own party's leadership, and with the help of votes from Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists. His term is seven years...
...left wing of the Christian Democrats, Gronchi was a leading and early advocate of the "opening to the left." But he has vigorously disowned a Christian Science Monitor story by Correspondent Edmund Stevens (TIME, Feb. 13), which quoted him as in effect favoring a popular front with Nenni's Socialists. (Correspondent Stevens, now in Moscow for Look, stands by his story.) Gronchi has had occasion before to address himself colorfully to suspicions of his commitment to the West. Said he last year: "For eight years they depicted me as an enemy of the Atlantic way, thus insulting and offending...
...advisers describes Gronchi's politics as New Dealism with a strong admixture of Roman Catholic liberal thought. He believes that to fight Communism, the Christian Democrats must get nearer the working class and present a progressive program which Nenni's fellow travelers would be compelled to support. He has never urged, say his advisers, that Nenni's Socialists be brought into government...
...remarked," said Stevens, "that in that case it was rather strange neither Signor Nenni nor any other spokesman for the Italian Socialist Party had ever spoken in disagreement with their Communist allies on such crucial questions. Signor Gronchi said that Signor Nenni was afraid to express his feelings openly lest it precipitate an open break with the Communists, which might split his own party...