Word: piccioni
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...coalesce them, the Christian Democrats are not so much a single team as a patchwork of conflicting blocs and cliques which stretch from modified socialism to near monarchism. As his first choice for new Premier, President Einaudi reached to the party's right wing and picked Attilio Piccioni, the Vice Premier, who was expected to attempt a deal with the Monarchists-something Alcide de Gasperi would not do. Piccioni's first step: to insist that De Gasperi be his Foreign Minister. Even in defeat, De Gasperi was still a man to reckon with...