biography
pronunciation:
[gaspayree]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1881–1954)
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| biography:
| Italian statesman and prime minister (1945–53), born in Trentino, N Italy. He studied at Innsbruck and Vienna, entered politics in 1911 as a deputy for the Catholic ‘Unione politica popolare trentina’ in the Austrian parliament, and became a deputy in the Italian parliament in 1921. In 1927 he was imprisoned by Mussolini as an anti-Facist. From 1929 he worked in the Vatican library until he became prime minister of the new republic, heading a succession of coalition cabinets. A founder of the Christian Democratic Party, he led it to victory in the 1948 elections, where it obtained an absolute majority. He was also a strong believer in a United Europe. |
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