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Youth Is Served. The big man of the congress was not Ex-Premier Alcide de Gasperi, 73, now the party's secretary general, or Premier Mario Scelba, who has held the government together since February. It was skillful Politico Amintore Fanfani, 46, who heads a left-of-center Demo-Christian faction called Democratic Initiative. A short, stocky Tuscan, an ex-professor of economics, Fanfani was successively a Minister of Labor, Agriculture and Interior, and he knows the government like the back of his hand. Last winter he tried and failed to form a government as Premier. Since then...
...Scelba did not say what he would do to oppose Communist filibustering and roughhousing in the Chamber when EDC comes up for action. One plan under discussion: if the Reds (and the neoFascists, who also oppose EDC) again start throwing inkwells, tearing up desks and making football charges into Demo-Christian ranks, government movie cameras in the galleries will film the proceedings, which will then be shown to the Italian people...
...journalistic jobs as Henry J. Taylor's recent This Week article. "Italy Is Going Communist!" U.S. press and politicians, who a few months ago failed to take the Italian situation seriously enough, were now lurching to the other extreme and calling it desperate. But Italy's Demo-Christian leaders are taking a stronger anti-Communist stand; Italy's economy is at a relatively high level. Italy, which is 65% antiCommunist, is by no means ready for a Communist Putsch...
...Gasperi's Cabinet, but left because he could not promote enough backing for his full-employment ideas (he wanted jobs-made work if necessary-for all of Italy's 2,000,000 unemployed). He believes everyone is entitled to "a job, a house, and music." As Demo-Christian candidate for Florence's mayoralty two years ago, he blasted the Communists loose from a five-year grip on the city's administration. To poverty-ridden Florence he has brought low-cost housing, sanitary improvements, tree planting, free concerts. Florentines sometimes call him Il Santo (The Saint...
...president of Contrada's town council, Carmine, a dedicated Monarchist, set himself to bait the sulky showoff, Silvio, an ardent Demo-Christian, at every turn. When Silvio planted cherry trees on the borders of his property, Carmine made him cut them down because they overhung the village highway. When Silvio built himself a tomb in the local churchyard, Carmine complained that its steps were on public property. "Material wealth can never replace brains," he gloated when the steps were ordered removed...