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...Marino, the 38-square-mile republic which sits on three prongs of the Apennines in northeastern Italy, is the only country outside the Iron Curtain that has a Red government. A coalition of Communists (17) and Nenni Socialists (14) rules the country against a parliamentary opposition of Demo-Christians (26) and Neo-Fascists (3). The Communist coalition, which won by only 139 votes in 1951, has done its best to make of San Marino a showpiece of Socialist effort. It has built roads, houses, hotels; it has eliminated unemployment, established old-age pensions and given women civic rights...
...week's enti President Gronchi, a left-wing Demo-Christian who is also flirting with Nenni, began the ritual consultations for selection of a new Premier. The first man he asked to form a government was wealthy 64-year-old Lawyer Antonio Segni, who as Minister of Agriculture in several De Gasperi cabinets was the author of the land reform laws and so dedicated a believer in them that he ordered the expropriation of most of his own estate in Sardinia...
...week's end, when the congress broke up, there was some solid evidence that Economist Levy and other delegates had gotten their point across. In Italy's Senate, Don Luigi Sturzo, 83-year-old founder of the Demo-Christian Party, an implacable foe of statism and an old enemy of E.N.I.'s Mattei, rose to demand quick passage of the new mining act. Said he: "There is no good reason why private firms, either Italian or foreign, should not carry out research with their own capital and at their own risk." As for E.N.I, itself, even...
...Politics. The basic struggle is between the Communists and a coalition headed by Regional President Franco Restivo, a simple, honest Demo-Christian who has led Sicily with the support of the Monarchists and occasional backing of the small center parties. "Eight years of Accomplishment" proclaimed the Demo-Christian banners...
...Sicilian oil for the Sicilians," cry Communist posters. The Communist accent on oil not only caught the Demo-Christians by surprise, but also caught them divided. President Restivo had a good defense: American participation has been profitable for Sicilians. But the Fanfani men sent down to take over the campaign have let him use the argument only halfheartedly. Up in Rome, important Demo-Christians have a stake in keeping oil production in the hands of the government monopoly...