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...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...
...vote for the Red-lining-left-wing Socialists was just as clearly a vote for the party's leader, Pietro Nenni. But the Christian Democrats, the nation's biggest party, campaigned with no face except the postered memory of their late great postwar statesman Alcide de Gasperi, and the promise of "progress without adventure" along the established line of the party's pro-Western, middle-road record. It was not until last week, a month after the elections, that the 12.5 million Italians who voted for the Christian Democrats learned the party's choice for Premier...
...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...
Behind him functioned the best political organization in Italy, much of it his own making. Inheriting the mantle of party leadership just before the death of Italy's great postwar statesman. Alcide de Gasperi, in 1954. Fanfani reorganized and rejuvenated the party from the ward level up. For this year's campaign -the first the party has had to fight without the magic name of De Gasperi -Fanfani organized 120,000 Christian Democratic militants into cells of three people each (one woman, one young man, one cell chief). Student organizations, trade-union groups, para-religious organizations...
Zoli as a young man had joined the Christian political movement of famed Don Luigi Sturzo, which later became the Demo-Christian Party. When De Gasperi died, Zoli succeeded to the presidency of the party and frequently acted as a peacemaker between the party's feuding factions...