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After World War I, De Gasperi joined the Popular Party (Christian Democratic) founded by Don Luigi Sturzo. A Sicilian priest, Sturzo was convinced that Christianity, in order to survive in the 20th Century, must rely on "good deeds" of a new kind-social and political action...
...Gasperi succeeded Sturzo as leader of Italy's Christian Democracy, ran up against Benito Mussolini. Mussolini forced De Gasperi out of the window. His party was banned and he became, like thousands of his fellow Italians, an outlaw. He was jailed twice. His health broke. In 1929, Pope Pius XI gave him a post as Vatican librarian at $80 a month. To eke out his salary, he gave language lessons, occasionally worked as ghostwriter for foreign correspondents...
...Spectator (London), independent Conservative weekly, contained this statement: "This is a new reading of English history, under which Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights become simply the public expression of the Englishman's dislike of discomfort and inconvenience- not by any means an unattractive reading!" priest, Don Sturzo, the Party professed undying hostility to Benito; but, because the Premier was trying to conciliate the Catholics, many members of the Party sympathized with him, seceded, became political nonentities...
Benito beamed, encouraged the new Party, hoped that it would knock edgeways the adherents of little Don Sturzo...
...opposition candidates numbered 1,004 for the remaining 179 seats: Don Sturzo's Catholic Party with 140 candidates, the Socialists with 100 candidates, three other opposition parties (including Giolitti's parish-pump-plus-place-holders organization and the Communists). There were also insurgent Fascisti movements in Turin and Alexandria, and the "Constitutional Opposition" headed by ex-Premier Bonomi...