Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good as it was, the ne,ws was nonetheless taken with some reservations about its. chances for real success. Premier Scelba's crackdown on the canny and deeply entrenched Italian Communists showed in itself a determination to meet, an issue which Italy's previous postwar Christian Democratic governments had notably avoided-with near-disastrous results. But to make the crackdown succeed, Scelba was going to need close support from his hairline majority. The question was: How determinedly will his coalition back...
After Patient Waiting. The Scelba Cabinet's ambitious plan was greeted with hosannas by the non-Communist press. Particularly notable was the fact that the two minor parties of Christian Democrat Scelba's coalition, including Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats, firmly joined in approving it. Said Rome's // Tempo: "For the first time, after many years of patient waiting, Italy has a government willing to go from the defensive to the offensive in this fight against subversion...
...head the commission, Premier Scelba picked Italy's most articulate foe of statism: Don Luigi Sturzo, the aged and respected Senator-priest who founded the Christian Democratic Party, launched Scelba in politics and last month gave a stirring lecture (TIME, March 8) on the menace of too much government...
Last week a letter written by La Caglio in the form of a last will and testament turned the whole trial topsy-turvy. "Who knows what will happen to me?" said the letter, ferreted out by a newsman and subpoenaed by the court. "I have too many Christian scruples to commit suicide, but knowing both Montagna and Piccioni, I am afraid to disappear without leaving a trace of myself. Unfortunately for myself, I have learned that Ugo is the chief of a dope ring responsible for the disappearance of many women. He is the brains of this organization, while Piero...
Errant Actors. A bluff six-footer who served in the World War I navy, studied law and economics, Wiirmeling, 53, began a career in the German civil service but was fired by the Nazis (1939) and turned to mining (basalt). After World War II he pitched into Christian Democratic politics, was soon on the party's three-man executive board, the recognized leader of its strong Catholic right wing, and one of Adenauer's busiest campaign speakers. (Wurmeling, his wife recalls, campaigned so hard that "he used to give speeches in his sleep.") After the last election. Adenauer...