Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five years, De Gasperi's Christian-Democratic (Catholic) Party, and the three parties which work in partnership with him, have had a substantial majority (63.7%) in the Chamber. But the strength of Italy's antidemocrats at both ends of the spectrum, the Communists and the monarcho-fascists, is growing. De Gasperi fears what he recently called "the prospect of the two extreme wings joining hands to create . . . a paralysis of the parliamentary system." Though many democrats are disquieted by the reform law, De Gasperi argues that democracy must be made secure enough to survive...
...This was the quo; a few minutes earlier, the Bundestag had already approved the quid: the allied peace contract restoring to Germany increased but not complete sovereignty after eight years of occupation. With these two votes, Western Germany took a decisive step in its emergence from defeat into a partnership in the free world...
...Sino-Soviet border stretches for some 5,000 miles along the northern and western edges of China. In partnership, it needs no policing. If he tried to break with Russia, fight in Korea, hold on to Manchuria, and hold off a revived Nationalist China, Mao would in effect be turning his borders with Russia into a suicidal second front...
...Moscow. That was back in 1946. Last week Tito was off again, in a different direction. No longer Communism's leading non-Russian, but now the world's leading anti-Russian Communist, he was going to London to see the Queen and her ministers. Object: a fuller partnership with the West...
Died. William Waller Hawkins, 69, former chairman of the board of the 19 Scripps-Howard newspapers, onetime (1920-23) president of United Press; of influenza; in Miramar, Calif. Quiet, pincenezed Bill Hawkins was an effective complement to dynamic Roy Howard in their 46-year working partnership. They teamed up when U.P. was founded to rival the formidable A.P.; Howard became its globe-trotting president-reporter-publicist, Hawkins the steady harvester of clients, organizer of bureaus. Hawkins succeeded Howard as U.P. chief, followed him to Scripps-Howard, succeeded him in 1936 as board chairman when Howard became president...