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{{Infobox Prime Minister 
| name              =  Alcide De Gasperi
| image             = De_Gasperi.JPG
| order           = Interim <br> [[President of the Italian Republic]]
| term_start	= [[June 12]], [[1946]]
| term_end	= [[July 1]], [[1946]]
| predecessor	= King [[Umberto II of Italy|Umberto II]]
| successor          = [[Enrico De Nicola]] 
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One his most striking achievements in foreign policy was the [[Gruber-De Gasperi Agreement]] with Austria in September 1946 that to established his home region, southern Tirol as an autonomous region.

===1948 elections=== 
[[Image:Time DeGasperi.jpg|thumb|left|The cover of [http://www.time.com/ Time Magazine] of [[April 19]] 1948, featuring De Gasperi threatened by the Red (Communist) Octopus
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The [[Italian general election, 1948|general elections in April 1948]] were heavily influenced by the cold-war confrontation between the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[United States]]. After the Soviet-inspired February 1948 communist coup in [[Czechoslovakia]], the US became alarmed about Soviet intentions and feared that, if the leftist coalition were to win the elections, the Soviet-funded [[Italian Communist Party]] (PCI) would draw Italy into the Soviet Union's sphere of influence. 

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