Word: segni
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offense to democratic usage and the good sense of the Sardinian people," huffed Sardinia's most eminent citizen, ex-Premier Antonio Segni. But on election day more than 60,000 Sardinians, 9% of the electorate, voted for Lauro's Monarchists, giving them six crucial seats on Sardinia's regional council. With Lauro's aid, the Christian Democrats would have a slim but workable majority in the council, a pattern which Lauro himself suggests can be followed nationally. "The new fact," said Milan's Corriere della Sera, "is Achille Lauro...
...fact that there was any crisis at all was partly Gronchi's doing. Premier Antonio Segni's government fell because of a split in the four-party coalition that has helped keep Christian Democratic Prime Ministers in office for the past four years. But Segni's position had been gravely weakened before he fell by Gronchi's rage when Segni's Foreign Minister refused to forward to President Eisenhower a private letter in which President Gronchi criticized U.S. policy in the Middle East. And it was clearly at Gronchi's behest that Segni...
Last week, with similar equanimity, Lawyer Zoli, 69, took on an assignment which, sooner or later, would almost certainly cost him a few teeth politically. When courtly Antonio Segni resigned as Italy's Premier two weeks ago, the four-party coalition that has dominated Italian politics since 1953 was utterly shattered. The only alternative to the coalition, pending next spring's general elections, was what Italians call a "single color" government-an all-Christian Democratic Cabinet which, since it would lack an assured majority in the Chamber of Deputies, could probably only survive by ducking controversial issues...
...also an able and self-effacing Minister of the Budget in Segni's Cabinet. Last week, while he was still in the midst of his own Cabinetmaking-major appointment: ex-Premier Giuseppe Pella as Foreign Minister-a Roman newsman showed Zoli a journalistic guess as to the Cabinet's final makeup. "Looks fine," grinned the Premier-designate. "Only name I would change is the Premier...
...would like to return to my students," said old Professor Segni with a broad smile. For the moment, President Gronchi and resigned Premier Segni (who may be asked to serve again) were too busy welcoming French President René Coty to Rome to give any attention to forming a new government. Though Coty's state visit caught them in a Cabinet crisis, Italians were not embarrassed. "After all," said a Roman politician, "Coty is a Frenchman. He will understand...