Word: gasperi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flood from the South. South Tyrol's 200,000 German-speaking people, subjects of the House of Habsburg for 555 years, never cottoned to the idea that they were Italian. At the end of World War II, the late Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi* agreed with Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Gruber to give the region autonomy within the Italian Republic, to allow German in the schools and in government offices, if the Austrians would consider the issue closed...
...confidence for his new government, Italian Premier Antonio Segni attacked those who were making "political capital" of the South Tyrol issue, insisted that it is a "matter that concerns Italy alone." He was promptly voted into office by 333-248, the biggest majority that any Italian Premier, even De Gasperi, has had since the war. Austrians were talking of carrying the matter to the United Nations, and were especially incensed at placards carried by Roman marchers showing Austria's famed gold-crowned black eagle as a chicken roasting on a spit. As a small sign of its displeasure, Austria...
Best known for his successful campaign to push through Italy's liberal land reform law, Segni in 1955 put together a Cabinet that lasted longer (22 months) than any since the heyday of the late Alcide de Gasperi. This time, with a Cabinet of Christian Democrats only, he hopes to be invested with the help, or the helpful abstention, of all Italy's right-wing parties, including the Liberals, Monarchists, and neoFascists...
...church's strengthened spiritual posture was marked by the fact that under Pius 33 saints were canonized,*more than under any other Pope in this century. Its political success can be judged from the fact that, during Pius' reign, Christian Democratic parties and Catholie statesmen (De Gasperi, Adenauer, Schuman, Fanfani et al.) rose to power in Western European countries where only a few years ago anticlericalism was a major prerequisite for political success...
...Votes. A former economics professor at Milan's Catholic University and author of 16 books on economics who spent the war years instructing students at internment camps in Switzerland, Amintore Fanfani rose fast once he entered politics after the war. After a succession of ministerial posts under De Gasperi, he had one fling at the premiership in 1954, but lasted only twelve days: the Chamber of Deputies ousted him on the first vote he faced...