Word: nitti
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...Chief among the others: Ex-Premier Nitti of Italy, ex-Premier Clemenceau of France, the late ex-President Woodrow Wilson of the U. S., ex-Premier Lloyd George of Britain...
...only did Mussolini divide the opposition, but former Italian premiers were divided: Nitti holding aloof, Orlando and Salandra joining the Fascisti, Giolitti opposing...
Constitutionalists. The Constitutional Party is generally regarded as liberal, but is in effect conservative. Like all other parties, it has suffered from the Fascist encroachment upon its policies. Signori Giolitti and Nitti are expected to be the most prominent leaders, but whether they will split or unite the Party cannot be determined until after the Fascist Grand Council has met in Rome to give voice to the Fascist policy, following which the Constitutionalists will state their platform. Most of the people who have been shocked at the Fascisti brutalities have fallen back on the Constitutionalists...
...Christiania (Sweden) Evening Post published a list of names that have been proposed for the next award of the Nobel peace prize. They include Jane Addams, Secretary Hughes, Lord Robert Cecil, Professor John Maynard Keynes (author of The Economic Consequences of the Peace), Francisco Nitti (former Premier of Italy), Carl Lindhagen (Mayor of Stockholm), Warren G. Harding...
Under the present system there are 55 electoral colleges, each of which holds ten seats. The party gaining the largest vote receives six of the seats, the others are assigned proportionately to the opposition parties. This scheme originated with Nitti in 1919, and made it practically impossible for any party to gain a majority. The Popular Party held the balance of power between the Liberal and the Socialistic groups and was able to force Catholic representation in all the coalition Governments that resulted, including even the Fascist Government...