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...vigorous, vote-harvesting activities of the Catholic Action movement. Yet Christian Democracy's three allies in the campaign all have their roots in Italy's long and emphatic anticlerical past: The Republicans, the party born of Garibaldi and Mazzini. One of its chief figures, Randolfo Pacciardi, fought in the Spanish Civil War against Franco and Mussolini's volunteers, is now De Gasperi's devoted Defense Minister...
...Back in Rome after his Emilian foray, Scelba faced Giuseppe Saragat, mild, middle-of-the-road Socialist leader, and two of his followers who hold posts in the cabinet. Saragat accused Scelba of trying to give "a sop to Fascism." Scelba took three days to soothe Saragat. Then Randolfo Pacciardi, Italy's able Defense Minister, made difficulties: he wanted Italy's regular armed forces strengthened before any volunteer forces were launched. Scelba brought him around by promising to support the armed forces' request for additional funds...
Meanwhile in Rome last week the national government got a new vice premier. He was Randolfo Pacciardi, handsome 48-year-old leader of the leftish Italian Republican Party. As organizer and commander of the anti-Fascist Garibaldi Brigade on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War, Pacciardi had fought side by side with Communists. He had thought for a long time that it was possible to cooperate with Reds, but he had changed his mind. "Until now," he said, "we have made attempts at pacification . . . but we cannot continue merely reciting prayers in a world of wolves...
...great international commanders, such as General Emil Kleber, Lieut.-Colonel Randolfo Pacciardi and General Lukacs have either been killed or left Spain long ago," reported Correspondent Matthews. "The key to the Leftists' bold decision undoubtedly is determination to clear the decks once and for all of those few foreigners whose presence added reason for the accusation of Moscow's interference in the Spanish war. Their presence was always understood as temporary -until good enough Spanish leaders could be developed to take their places. There are now some truly remarkable Spanish commanders, such as Modesto, Duran, Lister and Campesine...
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