Word: piccioni
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...Appian Way to a convent where resides frail Don Luigi Sturzo, the aged priest who founded the Christian Democrat Party, was once Scelba's mentor (see box). Though Scelba was unable to persuade the last two Premiers (Amintore Fanfani and Giuseppe Pella) to serve in his cabinet, Attilio Piccioni, a right-winger, agreed to stay on as Foreign Minister. Scelba decided to be his own Interior Minister, a job he had for six years...
...coalesce them, the Christian Democrats are not so much a single team as a patchwork of conflicting blocs and cliques which stretch from modified socialism to near monarchism. As his first choice for new Premier, President Einaudi reached to the party's right wing and picked Attilio Piccioni, the Vice Premier, who was expected to attempt a deal with the Monarchists-something Alcide de Gasperi would not do. Piccioni's first step: to insist that De Gasperi be his Foreign Minister. Even in defeat, De Gasperi was still a man to reckon with...