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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]] 
(contracted; show full) Italian delegation at the [[Paris Peace Conference|World War II peace conference]] in Paris, he obtained concessions from the Allies that guaranteed Italian sovereignty. Under the [[Paris Peace Treaties]] of 1947, the eastern border area was lost to [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] and the free territory of [[Trieste]] was divided between the two states.

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.

===American support===
De Gasperi enjoyed considerable support in the US, where he was seen as the man who could oppose the rising tide of Communism – in particular the PCI, which was the biggest communist party in a Western European democracy. In January 1947 he visited the US. The chief goals of the trip were to soften the terms of the pending peace treaty with Italy, and to obtain immediate economic assistance. His ten-day tour, engineered by media mogul [[Henry Luce]] – the ow(contracted; show full)[[ru:Гаспери, Альчиде де]]
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