Word: nenni
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...from the Communists, Signor Gronchi replied, for they bow to Moscow's directives. But the Red Socialists of Pietro Nenni are another matter. Though allied with the Communists, Gronchi maintained, they are firm believers in personal freedom and democracy, and differ with the Communists on these points...
...outside the Iron Curtain. Losing some of its hold on the trade unionists. "Even inflated official Communist figures indicate stagnation and not growth in Italy." The impressive Communist vote in Italy's last national election: 6,120,000 (22.6% of the vote), plus 3,440,000 (12.7%) for Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists...
...exact penalties for defrauding the government. His bill got nowhere. Not only was it resisted by Neo-Fascists and Monarchists, but it was repellent to the big-money backers of the ruling Christian Democrats. The bill languished in committee until one day last month, when Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni, freshly returned from imbibing political wisdom...
Moscow, proclaimed a change in strategy. Nenni Socialists and their Communist allies would henceforth be willing to support "progressive legislation." With that, Tremelloni's bill was hauled out of committee and put to the vote...
...absented themselves along with almost a third of their Christian Democrat followers. Of the 68 Monarchists and Neo-Fascists, only 13 were in the Chamber last week when the Tremelloni bill finally passed, 315 to 47. Well over 200 of the favorable votes were cast by the Communists and Nenni Socialists...