Word: segni
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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After 13 days of interregnum, Italy had a new Premier. Christian Democrat Antonio Segni, 64, a lean-featured, soft-voiced professor who looks like a country gentleman of 50 years ago, took over last week where his predecessor Mario Scelba left off, and managed to put together again Italy's four-party, middle-of-the-road coalition...
...Gasperi once complained: "Segni is never well enough to do his job as minister but never sick enough to resign...
Next would come Cabinetmaking, and the question was whether in naming one man or rebuffing another, Segni could hold his pledges together long enough to form a government. "By temperament I am a pessimist," said frail old Premier Designate Segni. "In this way I avoid disappointment when things go wrong...
...Segni's first problem was to persuade the bickering factions inside his own Christian Democrat Party to lay aside the differences that had brought down Scelba. After making some moves in this direction, he went to work on the Social Democrats (19 seats), the Republicans (5 seats), the Liberals (14 seats). For four days he scurried around a sweltering Rome, bargaining and counterbargaining. As courtesy required, he also paid a call on Stalin Prizewinner Pietro Nenni, who is panting to bring his fellow-traveling Socialists into a popular front. Segni rejected Nenni's offer; there are Christian Democrats...
...four days' trying, Segni still did not have the support of the Liberals, a free-enterprising party which deplores Segni's land-reform program. He asked for and got an extension of 48 hours, at the end of which the Liberals decided it was better to support him "with reservations" than risk some other Premier who might prefer to bid for Nenni's 75 votes...