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Alcide De Gasperi
Alcide Amedeo Francesco De Gasperi was an Italian politician and statesman who founded the Christian Democracy party and served as prime minister of Italy in eight successive coalition governments from 1945 to 1953.
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culture · Prime Minister of Italy from 1945 to 1953 · politician · linguist · journalist · diplomat · also Alcide De Gasperi, Alcide Amedeo Francesco De Gasperi, Gasperi
Born 3 April 1881 · Died 19 August 1954 · Q153832
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Il comunismo quale si viene attuando in URSS è agli antipodi del nazismo: il comunismo è impregnato di fratellanza cristiana ed è perciò antirazzista per eccellenza, mentre il nazismo e il fascismo sono essenzialmente e in primo luogo razzisti. Quindi due fenomeni inconciliabili e opposti il comunismo e il nazismo.
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1954· 7 entries
Died 1954-08-19.
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Saint-Charles (1954).
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“Ci sono molti che nella politica fanno solo una piccola escursione, come dilettanti, ed altri che la considerano e tale è per loro, come un accessorio di secondarissima importanza. Ma per me, fin da ragazzo, era la mia carriera, la mia missione.”
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“Il comunismo quale si viene attuando in URSS è agli antipodi del nazismo: il comunismo è impregnato di fratellanza cristiana ed è perciò antirazzista per eccellenza, mentre il nazismo e il fascismo sono essenzialmente e in primo luogo razzisti. Quindi due fenomeni inconciliabili e opposti il comunismo e il nazismo.”
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Was elected president of the forerunner of the European Parliament, the Community's Common Assembly
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De Gasperi also had to give up the leadership of the party, when Amintore Fanfani was appointed new Secretary of the Christian Democracy in June
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“Vero è che il funzionamento della democrazia economica esige disinteresse, come quello della democrazia politica suppone la virtù del carattere. L'opera di rinnovamento fallirà, se in tutte le categorie, in tutti i centri non sorgeranno degli uomini disinteressati, pronti a faticare e a sacrificarsi per il bene comune.”
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1953· 4 entries
Election lost: 1953 general election and decline.
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1953–1953).
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Campaign: 1953 general election and decline.
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Italy (1953–1953).
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1952· 3 entries
Awarded Charlemagne Prize (1952).
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Received the Karlspreis (International Charlemagne Prize of the City of Aachen), an award by the German city of Aachen to people who contributed to the European idea and European peace
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The party overwhelmingly endorsed his authority over the government and over the party
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1951· 5 entries
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Ottawa (1951).
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Led to the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community – a forerunner in the process of European integration
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1951–1953).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Italy (1951–1953).
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Career landmark: minister of Italian Africa (1951–1953).
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1950· 3 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Italy (1950–1951).
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Career landmark: minister of Italian Africa (1950–1951).
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After the defection of the Liberals, who hoped for more rightist policies, and the third in 1951 after the defection of the Social Democrats, who hoped for more left-wing policies
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1949· 2 entries
And became an ally of the United States, which helped to revive the Italian economy through the Marshall Plan
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"Without active American support and aid, De Gasperi could not survive a month"
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1948· 4 entries
Awarded Order of San Marino (1948).
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The general elections in April 1948 were heavily influenced by the Cold War era confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Italy (1948–1950).
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Career landmark: minister of Italian Africa (1948–1950).
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1947· 4 entries
Career landmark: minister of Italian Africa (1947–1948).
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Career landmark: minister of Italian Africa (1947–1947).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Italy (1947–1948).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Italy (1947–1947).
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1946· 5 entries
Career landmark: Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1946–1946).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Italy (1946–1947).
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of the Interior (1946–1947).
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Career landmark: Provisional Head of State of Italy (1946–1946).
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Career landmark: minister of Italian Africa (1946–1947).
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1945· 2 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy (1945–1946).
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Career landmark: minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy (1945–1946).
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1943· 1 entry
“Illustrazione Vaticana in which he depicted the chief political battle as one between communism and Christianity. In 1934, he rejoiced in the defeat of the Austrian Social Democrats, whom he condemned for”
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1934· 1 entry
Rejoiced in the defeat of the Austrian Social Democrats, whom he condemned for "de-Christianizing" the country, and in 1937 he declared that the German Church was correct in preferring Nazism to Bolshevism
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1929· 1 entry
His ecclesiastical contacts secured him a job as a cataloger in the Vatican Library, where he spent the next fourteen years until the collapse of Fascism in July 1943
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1919· 1 entry
Was among the founders of the Italian People's Party (PPI), with Luigi Sturzo
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1911· 1 entry
Became a member of Parliament for the Popular Political Union of Trentino (UPPT) in the Austrian Reichsrat, a post he held for six years
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1905· 2 entries
De Gasperi obtained a degree in philology
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Began to work as editor of the newspaper La Voce Cattolica (The Catholic Voice) which was replaced in September 1906 by Il Trentino and he soon became its editor
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1904· 1 entry
Took an active part in student demonstrations in favour of an Italian-language university
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1900· 1 entry
Joined the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy in Vienna, where he played an important role in the inception of the Christian student movement
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1881· 2 entries
Born 1881-04-03.
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In Pieve Tesino in Tyrol, now part of the Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige, which had been part of Austria-Hungary for more than 500 years
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