Word: nenni
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...begun that morning as a protest against low wages. One of Italy's most famous surgeons. Dr. Pietro Valdoni. worked over Togliatti for 2½ hours while Signorina Iotti and Togliatti's wife, white-haired Rita Montagna, stood in the doorway. Togliatti's Socialist ally, Pietro Nenni. wandered aimlessly about the corridors. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, his face greyer than usual, hurried to the Policlinico. "This," he said grimly as he left, "is the worst possible thing that could have happened...
...reselling the Socialist Party. He seems to have no ideas of how to start, and the left-wingers complicated his task last week by electing Nenni as the leader of the party group in the Italian Assembly...
...Discover Our Soul." Against their democratic and humanitarian convictions, the majority of the party had followed cynical Pietro Nenni into a common front with the Communists. Only thus, they argued, could Socialism attain victory. In this bargain the party lost its soul and never collected its price. It was defeated roundly in the April elections. What to do now? Repudiate the Red alliance? Stick to it and shake off the moderate Socialists...
...three groups into which the convention broke were Romita's anti-Communists (27%), Nenni's proCommunists (31%), and an aimless, sullen middle-of-the-road group which wanted to avoid the unavoidable decision (42%). The middle-of-the-roaders won, but not before the pro-Communist party secretary, bearded, slate-eyed Lelio Basso, had told them...
...ministers in De Gasperi's new government was sad-eyed, scholarly Giuseppe Saragat, who would try to see that those promises were carried out. His "Party of the Little Green Peas"* had won nearly half of Italy's four million Socialist voters from Communist Collaborator Pietro Nenni. Saragat was in the new cabinet as Vice Premier and Minister of Mercantile Marine...