Word: parrying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...UNRRA's help is to end with 1946. The threat of hunger formed the background of disquieting political developments. Democratic forces lost strength when the middle-of-the-road Action Party flew apart in a row between its right wing and moderates. Off went former Premier Ferruccio Parri to form a new middle-class group...
When Crown Prince Umberto, Lieutenant General of the Realm, named him Premier to succeed Ferrucio Parri, De Gasperi was ill with influenza. At first, propped up in bed, sneezing and rheumy-eyed, he haggled with fellow politicians. Then, pale and weak, he left his bedchamber for day-&-night sessions in the Chigi Palace. Punctually at 7 each morning a neighbor's phonograph woke...
Italy's coalition government fell apart. Deserted by the right wing of his Cabinet, Premier Ferruccio Parri resigned. To Italy's fractious factions he addressed a warning...
...Gianninis, not related, helped bring the crisis to a head. In Milan, Editor Guglielmo Giannini's Uomo Qualunque (TIME, Nov. 26) insistently demanded a new government of nonpoliticians. In Rome, gruff U.S. Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini of California's Bank of America answered a Parri Government request for credits with "Italy's present precarious situation does not permit the safe investment of capital. . . . Without a strong government you will be unable to prevent rioting...
Doris Duke Cromwell, a Rome reporter for I.N.S., stole the show from Premier Ferruccio Parri at his own press conference: while photographers took 20 pictures of her to every one of the Premier, she became so flustered she forgot to take notes on the conference...