Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general strike, Italians assumed that the Reds could bring one off. Now they had made the gesture, and the "weak" De Gasperi government had been able to overcome it. Collapse of the strike, however, did not mean that Communist power in Italy was broken or even badly bent. Conservative Rome was not the Red stronghold. Yet the Rome fiasco cost the Communists face, and partially freed De Gasperi from the constant threat of veto action by Communist-led unions against government policies...
Also present were Orson Welles (currently in Rome filming Cagliostro and meeting Italian politicos in his spare time); three conservative Italian journalists who know Togliatti well; young Emmanuele Rocco, Communist Unita's brilliant political reporter...
After the Communists had had their turn, it was the antiCommunists' move. In Washington, President Harry Truman announced that, although the last U.S. troops in Italy were embarking for home, the U.S. would consider "appropriate" measures if Italy's freedom were threatened "directly or indirectly." In Rome, Giuseppe Saragat, overcoming a deep reluctance, brought his right-wing Socialists into the government and became a vice-premier. De Gasperi would now have a comfortable Assembly majority for the first time. The Communists and the left-wing Nenni Socialists had been isolated...
...Rome one night last week, on the eve of general strike, an unusual group of dinner companions sat down in a restaurant. This is the story of TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes, who was there...
Christmas in Europe (Sun. 3 p.m., Mutual). Famed boys' choirs of Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Rome and London...