Word: selvaggi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Collaborator. They let it be known that if their deputies won, they would choose as Rome's mayor a solid-jowled and prosperous lawyer named Giovanni Selvaggi. Selvaggi is well-fitted for the role of an unwitting Judas sheep. A pre-Mussolini liberal, he retired from politics during Fascism, built himself a fine legal practice while quietly opposing Mussolini. After the war, Premier de Gasperi made him high commissioner of Sicily, where he did a difficult job well...
...live in caves, purging municipal corruption, modernizing public services. "What has the Atlantic pact or what happens in Czechoslovakia to do with how Rome's local administration is run?" he asks, as he pours an interviewer cognac and coffee. Communists are old hands in dealing with men like Selvaggi...
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