Word: segni
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...fellow-traveling Stalin Prize winner Pietro Nenni have always been regarded as forbidden fruit, something to be enviously eyed but eventually rejected. The price always looked too high. Last week Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni, one of Italy's shrewdest politicians, embarrassed the Christian Democratic government of Antonio Segni by offering his votes free...
...saved the government from serious embarrassment. A government budget bill was about to be defeated because about 40 government supporters were absent. A Nenni henchman, while publicly opposing the budget, sent 30 or 40 Communist and Socialist members out of the hall to match the missing Christian Democrats. The Segni government was saved from a defeat. Philosophizing on his new strategy (which Italians are calling the Strategy of the Smile), Nenni said: "The slow disintegration of the majority is turning the Houses of Parliament into a sort of jungle . . . We are not concerned with overthrowing ministers by secret votes...
...promise of rich oil deposits, perhaps enough to fulfill Italy's own needs and to save her expensive imports. Oil is not the answer to all of Italy's economic problems, but it is a good place to make a start. The question before Premier Antonio Segni's Cabinet last week was whether to entrust the big job of finding and exploiting the oil to the U.S. companies who have the capital and the experience to do the job, or to leave it in the hands of a state monopoly...
Decision: Monopoly. Premier Segni's government last week decided to amend the outmoded laws, but in such a way as clearly to favor state monopoly. It was a major defeat for the oil companies, and a severe setback to the U.S. efforts to help stabilize Italy politically by helping it to stabilize itself economically...
...Segni's first acts was to greet the wandering minstrel of neutralism. Jawaharlal Nehru, and to put him straight on one point. "We in Italy," said Segni coolly, "are all for the Atlantic pact...