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During World War II he became a leader of the resistance, and with De Gasperi founded the new Christian Democratic Party. Elected President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1948, an office he held until 1955, when he was elected Italy's President over the opposition of his own party's leadership, and with the help of votes from Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists. His term is seven years...
...good or ill, Signor Gronchi's views are sure to exert more and more weight on Italian policy at home and abroad in the next several years. This veteran politician and spokesman for the Christian Democratic left, whom the late Alcide de Gasperi deeply mistrusted, refuses to be a ceremonial figurehead of state. Despite constitutional limitations, he has jockeyed himself into a position where, as President, he can make or break Premiers almost if not quite in the manner of the absolute monarch...
...first Sardinian ever to become Premier of Italy, scholarly Antonio Segni made his reputation as Minister of Agriculture under the late Alcide de Gasperi. In his zeal for land reform, he once expropriated a quarter of his own estate and compensated his wife, to whom some of the land originally belonged, with a bottle of perfume. Straightforward, witty and courteous, Segni is more at home in the classroom or the law court than in the back rooms of Italian politics. He is not a robust man, yet, in the drawn-out bargaining and bickering process that constitutes Cabinetmaking in Italy...
After a stretch in a Parma jail, Italy's serious-minded Humorist Giovanni (The Little World of Don Camilla) Guareschi, sentenced to twelve months for libeling the late Premier Alcide de Gasperi, was sprung conditionally, time off for good behavior. Matter of principle: given a chance to ask for a cut in his sentence last October, Prisoner Guareschi, in no mood for apologies or parole pleas, politely declined the opening, doggedly stuck to his cell...
...Gasperi once complained: "Segni is never well enough to do his job as minister but never sick enough to resign...