Word: nenni
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...clock one morning last week, Italy's Communists, fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists and their strange allies, the monarcho-fascists, opened their last-ditch battle against Premier Alcide de Gasperi's electoral reform bill. Not until 76 hectic hours later did the battle end. The chamber of the Italian Senate by then was a shambles of broken chairs, torn books and blood spatters; at least a dozen wounded Senators and Cabinet Ministers stumbled about in the wreckage. But the unholy alliance had lost and refused even to cast its votes. The final vote...
...finally, at 5 o'clock one morning last week, after 67 hours of unrelieved parliamentary inferno, the Chamber came to a vote. The 180 Communists and fellow-traveling Socialists of Pietro Nenni's faction marched out without voting. The rest voted 339 to 25 to approve the electoral reform bill, and sent it on to the Senate. Foresighted attendants transferred the emergency cots to the anterooms of the Senate...
...dinner hour one quiet evening last week, Demo-Christian Deputy Oscar Scalfaro stood up in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and made a motion: let the House sit seven days a week to speed debate on the government's electoral reform bill. Up popped Socialist Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni to cry: "The majority is attempting a coup." Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, discarding his usual pose of blue-serge respectability, shouted: "This isn't a Parliament. It is a bivouac of priests." From the right came the reply: "Go back to your Soviet Parliament, Togliatti. Your game will...
Next day, in case anyone should think that Nenni's effort did not have full Kremlin backing, Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti, in his best double-breasted blue suit, told the deputies that Europe must choose between "a strong and friendly Russia in a prodigious moral and material ascendancy, which offers peace and well being to the entire world, and a barbarous America which openly prepares for war . . . The Italian government, if it is not completely blind, should establish profitable contacts with the Soviet bloc...
...other words, for Huckster Nenni: No Sale...