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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]]
| 1blankname1        = Luogotenente
| 1namedata1         = [[Umberto II of Italy|Prince Umberto]]
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One his most striking achievements in foreign policy was the [[Gruber-De Gasperi Agreement]] with Austria in September 1946, that established his home region, southern Tirol, as an autonomous region.

==Social security reform==
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In domestic policy, a number of social security reforms were carried out by various ministers of De Gaspari's cabinets in the areas of rents and popular housing, unemployment insurance
s and pensions.

==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 owner of '(contracted; show full)[[Category:Italian journalists]]
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