Word: governance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave two-thirds of the seats to the party polling the most votes, the Christian Democrats found themselves in many cities polling more votes but losing seats. In Turin, Genoa, Venice, Pisa and Rome, the Chris tian Democrats lost their legislative majority, and stood in need of allies. to govern. In Florence Mayor Giorgio La Pira, Florence's busy little friend of the poor, polled more votes than any mayor ever had, but ended with only 25 city council seats out of 60, v. 31 in 1951. In Rome the Christian Democrats increased their vote by 13 percent...
...Rome's outskirts. The Communist candidate is Giuseppe di Vittorio, a tough Red union leader who is rated second only to Togliatti as an orator and vote getter. If Di Vittorio wins, the Christian Democrats in the city council will try to keep him from forming a government, thus allowing the national government to appoint a prefect to govern instead...
...Truly it can be said of Dwight Eisenhower, that he would rather be popular than be the dynamic civilian leader of the American people," he charged. "This may be the way to win the opinion polls. But I question very seriously whether it is the way to govern a country...
...deportation of Archbishop Makarios and other Cypriot leaders by the British reminds one of Communist techniques in satellite countries. The extremes to which the British can go to hold on to the name of Empire is nauseating. In some cases, where the native people are really unable to govern themselves, colonialism could be excused for a time. But the Greeks can boast of the first and longest civilization in Europe...
...Archbishop Michael Gonzi, a powerful voice in Roman Catholic Malta, who feared that integration might limit the church's influence over the island's education, religion and family life (Britain proposes that church-state relations be handled by Malta's own Parliament, which will continue to govern local affairs after integration...