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...most sought-after politico in Italy today is Pietro Nenni, 64, the yeasty, eloquent leader of Italy's Red Socialists. Ever since the center-right Christian Democratic coalition proved itself unstable, Italian politicians have been hypnotized by the possibility of an alliance with Nenni's party. But could Nenni be detached from his warm partnership with Palmiro Togliatti and the Communists? Some said he could be, some said he could not. Nenni simply said: Why don't you try me and find...
Early vote returns, heavily weighted with big-city votes from Rio and São Paulo, gave Millionaire Politico Adhemar de Barros a temporary lead, but Kubitschek forged slowly ahead after reports began coming in from the inland states, notably Minas Gerais. The count early this week: Kubitschek 2,277,000, Army General Juarez Távora 2,112,000, Barros...
Ever Louder Tones. The most striking evidence of change was a radio speech. For the first time since Perón achieved the presidency in 1946, the government let an opposition politico speak to his countrymen on the air. Over a nationwide network. Radical Party Leader Arturo Frondizi declared that Perón's announced program of pacification "must not be a new form of submission. We want peace, but not at the price of our freedom." Boldly, he called an end to the state of internal war decreed by Peron...
...bent, grief-stricken man in his 70s, he set himself the task of finding out who had betrayed them. Last year, after poring through mountains of yellowed records, he pointed the finger of blame at Rudolf (now Israel) Kastner, by then a citizen of Israel himself, a promising politico in the Mapai Party and an assistant to Cabinet Minister Dov Joseph...
...called in the more cynical capital circles-has long been a part of our political tradition . . . The people, especially religious people, seem to demand it-and who is to say that there may not be some faint ring of sincerity as the politico's little coins of godliness are dropped? [But] the new God-bit is more serious. It is the identification of our national cause, our needs, our ends-conceived in political and military terms -with God's cause, His needs and His ends . . . Certain vestiges of America's Calvinist past seem to have reappeared...