Word: fanfani
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gronchi (pronounced gronc-key) is a Christian Democrat. But the loudest cheers came from the Communists and their fellow-traveling allies, Pietro Nenni's Socialists. Mario Scelba. the Christian Democratic Premier, stood in glum silence. He and Party Secretary Amintore Fanfani had done everything in their power to prevent the election of their fellow Christian Democrat. Gronchi's victory was a humiliating defeat for Scelba's shaky four-party coalition of the center; it was an open defiance of Fanfani's personal leadership of the big Christian Democratic Party, which has firmly guided Italy into...
...weeks before the presidential election, Fanfani and Scelba had been conferring with the three minor parties of the coalition to decide who should succeed Luigi Einaudi, a Liberal, as President. Einaudi is widely respected, but he is 81, and many disliked setting a precedent of a second seven-year term. Scelba declared the candidate should not be a Christian Democrat. The Liberals. Social Democrats and Scelba's own faction in the Christian Democrats were willing to support Einaudi. Fanfani was not. At an eleventh-hour meeting before the Deputies and Senators gathered in Rome's big Montecitorio Palace...
...this lemon tree would ever blossom, but ..." A few days later, he was Premier. He has survived for 14 months through nine votes of confidence (winning margin only last week: 67 votes) despite his shaky Christian Democrat coalition, slim margin and the devious opposition of party Secretary-General Amintore Fanfani. After attending a Commons session in London this year, Scelba, who must contend with tossed insults, ink pots and punches in Italy's Chamber of Deputies, sighed and said of Britain's Parliament: "It's like a family gathering!" Under his administration, Italy ratified the Western defense...
Secretary-General Fanfani could see that these words carried weight with the Demo-Christian elders, and that in a showdown Fanfani, and not Scelba, would be beaten. So Fanfani executed a hasty but fairly graceful retreat. When the delegates drafted and passed a warm resolution praising Scelba and his coalition, Fanfani chimed in with a show of enthusiasm...
...clear setback for Fanfani, and a reprieve for Mario Scelba. But there still remained the controversial farm-policy bill, which had sparked the original trouble among the junior coalition partners. In view of his forthcoming trip to Washington, Scelba asked the Chamber of Deputies to postpone a vote on it. His request required a majority of those present, or 275 votes. He won with but one vote to spare (the vote was 276 to 272). Remarked Scelba quietly: "Even a majority of one is sufficient for the next 20 days." His trip to the U.S. was safe...