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{{Infobox Prime Minister 
| name               = Alcide De Gasperi
| image              = Alcide de Gasperi 2.jpg
| order              = [[List of Prime Ministers of Italy|30th]] [[Prime Minister of Italy]]
| monarch            = [[Victor Emmanuel III of Italy|Victor Emmanuel III]]<br>[[Umberto II of Italy|Umberto II]]
| president    	     = [[Enrico De Nicola]] <br> [[Luigi Einaudi]]
| term_start         = 10 December 1945 
(contracted; show full)e Smitha</ref> Time Magazine backed the campaign and featured De Gasperi on its 19 April 1948 issue’s cover and in its lead story.<ref name=tim190448/> (He would appear on a Time cover again on 25 May 1953, during the campaign for that year's election, with an extensive biography.<ref name=time250553>[http://jcgi.pathfinder.com/time/printout/0,8816,890557,00.html Man from the Mountains], Time Magazine, 25 May 1953</ref>)

The Christian Democrats won a resounding victory with 48
.5 percent of the vote (their best result ever) and strong majorities in both the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. The communists received only half of the votes they had in 1946. The Christian Democrats won a parliamentary majority, and De Gasperi  Although De Gasperi could have formed an exclusively DC government, he opted instead to formed a new centre-right government. In the following five years De Gasperi continued to run the countryist coalition.  He ruled for five more years, helming four additional coalitions. "De Gasperi’s policy is patience," according to the foreign news correspondent for the [[New York Times]], [[Anne O'Hare McCormick|Anne McCormick]]. "He seems to be feeling his way among the explosive problems he has to deal with, but perhaps this wary mine-detecting method is the stabilizing force that holds the country in balance."<ref>New York Times, 16 February 1949, quoted in [http://www.arts.mun.ca/congrips/newsletter/61%20-%20Fall%202005.pdf De Gasperi through America(contracted; show full)[[Category:Italian journalists]]
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