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...populist priest from Sicily, Don Luigi Sturzo, the Christian Democratic movement was the first mass-based Catholic party in Italy. Dissolved by Mussolini and revived after World War II, the party reached its greatest national strength in the late 1940s. Under Sturzo's protege Alcide de Gasperi, it held an absolute majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and expelled the Communists from De Gasperi's fourth postwar unity Cabinet. The party rode the popular idealism of Italy's return to democracy. Many of its leaders had been persecuted by Mussolini's Fascists, and served...
...both experienced and so cool and detached in his political dealings that he is said to have sangue ghiaccio (icy blood). Andreotti is Italy's first Roman-born Premier since unification. He was only a fledgling lawyer-journalist when he became a wartime protege of Alcide de Gasperi, Italy's great postwar Premier. De Gasperi was a Vatican librarian hiding from the Fascists when Andreotti wandered in one day in 1941 to begin research on papal naval history.* After the war Andreotti became a member of the first Constituent Assembly and also secretary of De Gasperi...
...Innocenti had an idea that put a nation on wheels. He made a stubby, inexpensive motor scooter: something more than a bike but less than a motorcycle. He called it the Lambretta, and Italians, too poor to buy autos, rapidly embraced it as their family vehicle. Premier Alcide de Gasperi boasted before he died that his regime had "given the motor scooter to the people." Pope Pius XII once publicly praised the motor scooters for "raising the level of life of the social categories who cannot buy more costly means of transport.'' Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini (now Pope...
...flies off this week for a five-day U.S. visit that will include a White House conference with President Nixon, has done more than merely hang on. Some Italians are already saying, perhaps prematurely, that he may be the best man in the job since the late Alcide de Gasperi, Italy's premier Premier. Others say that the ascetic, soft-spoken Christian Democrat, whom leftists call "the lay cardinal" for his piety and political skill, has accomplished a political miracle by not only surviving but actually making some progress...
...Colombo [dove, in Italian] that will fly." What with labor unrest and the upsurge in neo-Fascist rioting, this dove has enough problems to keep him from taking wing for a while. Still, there is a chance-an outside chance, admittedly-that for the first time since De Gasperi retired in 1953, Italy may at last have a Premier who is not permanently grounded...