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...Pella's side. But with surprising haste much of the newspaper following which Pella had built up petered away within hours of his resignation; two of Italy's strongest newspapers came out next morning against any attempt to reform the government along Pella's lines. "No rightist solution is possible in the present situation," said Turin's La Stampa, which is owned by Fiat. Added Milan's respected Corriere della Sera: "The rank and file of the party, supported by a large percentage of the clergy and even the episcopate, have turned left...
...keep the lira stable, he fought tenaciously against many of his party who wanted vote-catching spending programs. Once, in 1951, he resigned rather than give in, bringing the government down with him. De Gasperi formed a new Cabinet and persuaded Pella to come back. In Parliament, a rightist deputy once insisted that if he would allow a little more inflation, workers' wages also would rise. "Yes," replied Pella, "But the trouble is that prices will go up by the elevator, while wages will have to climb the stairs...
...Popular Front?" Actually, Laniel's reforms were more feared than fearsome. Pensions would be lowered, rents slightly raised, the swollen French bureaucracy would be lightened by the dismissal of 4,000 temporary clerks. These were the kinds of cuts a rightist government could be expected to make, but they did not get to the heart of the ailing French economy (see below). They merely convinced the workers that the cabinet intended an assault on the French welfare state...
...form a new coalition, Yoshida may have to welcome back some of the errant Hatoyamaites or make a deal with the rightist Progressive Party of peg-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu. Yoshida will need all the cooperation he can get from the right, because the left is getting stronger at every election. This week 138 Socialists and one Communist were elected. A year ago there were only 46 Socialists in the Lower Chamber...
...record of failure, achieve the miracle of making nationalization work? The first obvious threat to him is an army comeback. Observers on the spot report that the army was all but destroyed by the April revolution and, with the country behind him, Paz is probably safe against any rightist coup for a year or more. But what will happen when the Bolivian tin miners discover that working for the government is sadly like working for Patiño? When the Paz regime was organized, a diplomat observed: "There is a time bomb in that cabinet, and his name is Juan...