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...municipal elections last month that it had two enemies, not one. The neo-Fascist M.S.I. (Movimento Sociale Italiano), which many people treated as a stale joke, emerged as Italy's third party and another threat to Premier Alcide de Gasperi's middle-of-the-road Demo-Christians (TIME, June 9). Last week, De Gasperi used one enemy to help strike down another. He maneuvered the Communists into helping him against the Fascists...
Backed by the Communist bloc, the Demo-Christians easily pushed through (410 votes to 34) a bill drafted by Interior Minister Mario Scelba. whose name is usually anathema to the Reds. In rendering Fascism illegal, the Scelba law does a serviceable job of defining it. It bans any movement that 1) "exalts, threatens or uses violence"; 2) "advocates the suppression of [Constitutional] freedoms"; 3) engages in "racial propaganda"; 4) "denigrates democracy." Penalties: for Fascist activity, three to ten years in jail; for the Fascist salute, three months...
...rock of Scylla only to veer toward the whirlpool of Charybdis. When the returns were in from the 8,000,000 voters in southern Italy's municipal elections, the Communists had been held in check and Rome had been saved by Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Demo-Christian bloc. But a discredited old dogma made a startling comeback and created a new danger...
...disturbing rise of such figures, dramatized by last week's election, gave impetus to the Demo-Christian bill to outlaw all neo-Fascist movements, which has already been approved by the Senate and has a good chance of passing the Chamber. If it does, the neo-Fascists vow to return under some other name. Admitted a weary Demo-Christian leader: "It's very difficult to legislate a disease like Fascism out of existence...
...Sunday by getting to his feet as the priest was reading a pastoral letter to the congregation, and crying out: "Enough! Get on with the Mass. We are getting cold." That made him unpopular; besides, the Communists did not build the aqueduct they promised. Chances are, Anticolani will vote Demo-Christian-but not because they support the Atlantic pact or concern themselves with the East-West struggle. A reporter who talked to Anticolani last week found only one who had heard of the pact...