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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        = Lieutenant
| 1namedata1         = [[Umberto II of Italy|Prince Umberto]]
(contracted; show full)as launched to prevent a victory of the Communist-dominated [[Popular Democratic Front (Italy)|Popular Democratic Front]] (FDP – {{lang-it|Fronte Democratico Popolare}}). Italian-Americans were encouraged to write letters to their relatives in Italy. The popular Italian-American singer [[Frank Sinatra]] made a [[Voice of America]] radio broadcast. The [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) funneled "black bag" contributions to anti-communist candidates with the approval of the [[National Security 
Council (United States)|National Security Council]] and President [[Harry S. Truman|Truman]]. [[Joseph P. Kennedy]] and Claire Booth Luce helped to raise US$2&nbsp;million for the Christian Democrat Party.<ref>[http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch24cld.html  The Cold War Begins], Frank Eugene 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 campai(contracted; show full)[[Category:Italian journalists]]
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