Pietro Nenni

Pietro Nenni , born on February 9th 1891 with Faenza (Romagna) and deceased on January 1st 1980 with Rome, is a politician Italy N.

Biography

Pietro Nenni launches out very early in the political action. At the sides of Mussolini, it militates for the Italian intervention in the First World War and founds the “beam” of Bologna in 1919. It is diverted shortly after Fascism, adheres to the Italian Republican party before joining the Italian Socialist party in 1921. It directs as of the following year the daily newspaper of the party, Avanti! . A duel celebrates opposes it to Curzio Malaparte.

Denouncing the mode, it must, in 1926, to exile itself in France. Secretary of the Socialist party in exile (1931), it concludes a pact from unit of action with the Italian Communists and engages in the war of Spain as political police chief of the international Brigades.

Returned to France after the defeat of the republicans, it is stopped by the Régime of Vichy (1942) then delivered to the Italian police force. It finds freedom after the fall of Mussolini and takes again the head of the PSI in June 1944. From June 1945 at July 1946, he is vice-president of the Council under Ferruccio Parri and Alcide de Gasperi, then Foreign Minister until the beginning of 1947, where the Socialists are rejected into the opposition.

Its engagement for peace, in particular within the World council of peace, is worth to him to receive the Prix Stalin for peace in 1951.

Starting from 1953, Nenni is favorable to a greater autonomy of its party with respect to the Communists and seeks to tie the dialog with social democracy. It supports on the left the opening of the Christian Democrat Amintore Fanfani and became thus vice-president of the Council of Aldo Moro of 1963 with 1968. In 1966, it takes the head of the unified Socialist party (PSU), which gathers PSI and the Italian democratic Socialist party (PSDI). The PSU bursts in July 1969 and Nenni, then Foreign Minister of the government Rumor, leaves its station as well as the direction of the party. Appointed senator with life in 1970, again president of the Italian Socialist party (1971) and chair Senate in 1979, it dies in Rome January 1980. -----

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