Word: saragat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Green Peas. Among the 19 ministers in De Gasperi's new government was sad-eyed, scholarly Giuseppe Saragat, who would try to see that those promises were carried out. His "Party of the Little Green Peas"* had won nearly half of Italy's four million Socialist voters from Communist Collaborator Pietro Nenni. Saragat was in the new cabinet as Vice Premier and Minister of Mercantile Marine...
...believe the Prime Minister wants to go ahead with necessary changes," said Saragat last week. "Otherwise I wouldn't have entered the cabinet. Our task is to give him all possible support, to push and suggest that which will benefit the working classes." Of Communists, Saragat has said: "Nothing separates us-except a great abyss." But his alliance with De Gasperi was an uneasy one. Said the Premier recently of his colleague: "Saragat sometimes seems to hear the call of the wild...
...suit. The frail 74-year-old economist was a nonparty man who (as Minister of the Budget) had masterminded devaluation of the lira last winter, checked Italy's inflation. He was the one man that Premier de Gasperi's Christian Democrats and their main parliamentary allies-the Saragat Socialists and the Republicans-could agree on. And, though he was antiCommunist, even the Reds joined the applause when Einaudi (in his grey suit) was sworn...
...Anti-Communist (Saragat) Socialists: 1,800,000 (7.1%). Chamber: 33 seats. Senate...
...real tragedy in Italy today is the absence of any strong liberal party. The Nenni Socialists must cling to the Communists for survival, whereas those led out of the last Socialist Congress by Saragat have been submerged by papal electioneering. The result is that the United States stands side by side with the Vatican in supporting all anti-Communists per se. It is ironic to observe, moreover, that two years after the war's end, the gains of the neo-Fascists are also the gains of the United States...