Word: partito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italian politics have quieted down since the critical elections last year, but the marks of the fracas are everywhere. The Communists apparently cornered the nation's white paint supply--every available wall space is still daubed with "Viva Il Partito Communisto" and the slogan "Peace, Work, and Liberty." ECA, which is financing reconstruction projects all over Italy, has cashed in on the party line. Its slogan is "Peace and Work...
...Italians pronounce the initials of Saragat's Partito Socialista del Lavoratori Italiani (Socialist Party of Italian Workers) as piselli (peas...
Monarchists gained. Pudgy, bustling Guglielmo Giannini, who skyrocketed his weekly Uomo Qualunque (The Common Man) to an 800,000 circulation by jeering at politicians, finally went political. A day before his Uomo Qualunque anti-politico movement was to hold its first national convention, he joined the monarchist Partito Democratico Italiano...
Communism has its opposition. The rightist Partito Democratico Italiano has arms, and money to buy more. The Christian Democratic Party (heavily Catholic) is persistently reported to have a well-armed militia...
Less gracious was Count Sforza's liberal Partito d'Azione (Action Party), which charged that the Pope "has always been a reactionary favoring an absolute and paternal government, even after Mussolini's fall." Said the Action Party: "By means of a Parliament and the press we must discuss with the people ways of restricting the Church's influence. This might be done by encouraging other forms of religion...