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...Paying Saragat. Then Scelba turned to the job of measuring out the high price the 264 Christian Democrats had to pay to win the few (38) but crucial Parliament votes of three splinter parties of the democratic center. Most essential to Scelba's success, and therefore the hardest bargainer, was Giuseppe Saragat, the wavery leader of the Social Democrats. When Pietro Nenni sold out Italian Socialism to the Communists in 1947, Saragat founded a rump party of anti-Communist Socialists. Though his party's strength was cut in half at last summer's elections, Saragat...
...approval, as it had been to Pella. The Monarchists, who are outside the government and much opposed to it, announced that they, too, would vote for EDC. Barring a long filibuster, this should assure its passage. Scelba also lined up a heavy public-works program and, with Saragat, mapped a campaign to lay down a steady succession of social-welfare projects that even Pietro Nenni would be embarrassed to oppose...
Away went the Monarchists' 39 votes. And Giuseppe Saragat's 19 non-Communist Socialists, though they favored every word and comma of Fanfani's program, stubbornly stood against him, too. The 14 Liberals stayed aloof...
...contest was really all over. But the lions and jackals, not yet sated with crisis, would not be denied their sport. For the next two days the old Montecitorio Palace, which houses Parliament, was Rome's modern-day Colosseum and Amintore Fanfani its doomed Christian. Giuseppe Saragat, who held the power to install Fanfani and his democratic Cabinet by a thin margin, alibied that the Premier was trying to appear to be leftist, and yet was compromising with the Monarchists. "One cannot turn toward us and at the same time turn toward the right," said he in an emotional...
...Trieste territory between Yugoslavia and Italy would be acceptable to him. Clement Attlee and his Labor Party forced the House of Commons into scheduling a debate on Trieste. Worried that the Laborites would lean to Tito's side,* the leader of Italy's non-Communist Socialists, Giuseppe Saragat-with Premier Pella's blessing-dispatched a trusted lieutenant to London to explain to Fellow Socialist Attlee how Laborite opposition to Italy's Trieste claims would further damage the deteriorating Socialist position in Italy...