Huge crowds celebrate as Italy becomes a Republic state and chooses Alcide De Gasperi as its provisional head

High LS large crowds gathered in streets near entrance of Supreme Court / MS crowds near entrance of Supreme Court / PAN soldiers carry flag, march through applauding crowds / MS large crowd near entrance of Supreme Court / MS people outside building / CU Attilio Piccioni(?) Christian Democrat and possible candidate for the Italian Presidency / CU Dr. Giuseppe Saragat, Italian socialist party leader, becoming President of the Constituent Assembly 6/25/1946, smiling, walking away / MS Giuseppe Josef Romita, Italian Minister of the Interior / CU side view of Pietro Nenni in sunglasses, Italian Vice Premier and President of the Italian Socialist Party, talking, crowd in bg / MS Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Former Premier of Italy and one of the "Big Four" following World War I, takes off hat, smile / CU Vittorio Emanuele Orlando / MS Italian soldiers behind barbed wire barricade / CU Garibaldi soldier / MS Garibaldi soldiers marching / PAN people seated inside courtroom / MS the bench / MS judges at table, court paper in hand / LS PAN EXT of very large crowds at Corso Umberto Square, milling and carrying flags / CU side view of Dr. Alcide De Gasperi, Italian Premier and Foreign Minister and President of the Christian Democratic Party, becoming head of the provisional Italian Republican State 6/13/1946, on platform talking into microphone / MS angle view of De Gasperi on platform talking, flag on table reading "Libertas" / VS people in square, listening, applauding / Rear pan view of mass of heads as far as can be seen / LS milling crowd in street / MS crowd, some with flags / VS CU crowd looking up, singing and applauding / MS flag being carried past crowd in fg / PAN crowd in front of building and in square / Note: exact day not known