Alcide De Gasperi

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... like the one that, that, that Schumann and De Gasperi and, uh, Adenauer had.

I mean, they implemented all the Catholic principles in their idea without calling it Catholic.

Right.

And I'm going so deep into his biography because it's essential to understanding Gladio, okay? And you'll see why or like what I mean in a minute.

He begins a protege of a man named Alcide de Gasperi.

Gasperi became a member of the parliament of Trentino, which was a part of the Austrian Reichstadt.

It was one of these Italian territories that was semi-autonomous but was under the sovereignty of the Habsburg Empire, okay? Gasperi began the First World War as politically neutral.

You know, uh, like, like racialism didn't feature into their equation to the same degree that it did and does some continental tendencies, but this was a genuine, like, right-wing tendency.

Okay.

Um, and, uh, when southern Italy was conquered by the Allies, De Gasperi became basically, like, the main representatives of the Christian Democrats in what became known as the National Liberation Community or the Nat- the Na- the National Liberation Committee.

Like dissident elements that, you know, were, were all kind of jockeying for, um, you know, patronage by the Allies and, you know, who would give them the, the mandate and, uh, you know, security elements in order to, i-in order to insinuate themselves as, you know, the, the, the prominent, preeminent, like, cadre or party, like, ruling the country.