Word: randolfo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign on the vigorous, vote-harvesting activities of the Catholic Action movement. Yet Christian Democracy's three allies in the campaign all have their roots in Italy's long and emphatic anticlerical past: The Republicans, the party born of Garibaldi and Mazzini. One of its chief figures, Randolfo Pacciardi, fought in the Spanish Civil War against Franco and Mussolini's volunteers, is now De Gasperi's devoted Defense Minister...
...pledge. Back in Rome after his Emilian foray, Scelba faced Giuseppe Saragat, mild, middle-of-the-road Socialist leader, and two of his followers who hold posts in the cabinet. Saragat accused Scelba of trying to give "a sop to Fascism." Scelba took three days to soothe Saragat. Then Randolfo Pacciardi, Italy's able Defense Minister, made difficulties: he wanted Italy's regular armed forces strengthened before any volunteer forces were launched. Scelba brought him around by promising to support the armed forces' request for additional funds...
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