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...April 28-29 election were only a personal popularity contest, short (5 ft. 1 in.), mustachioed Premier Amintore Fanfani, 55, might find himself out of a job. Fanfani is shrewd, not simpatico; behind his back, critics call him and his aides i bassotti (the dachshunds). More than Fanfani's looks and cold political style are against him. A 6% jump in living costs last year touched off a prolonged wave of strikes by industrial and whitecollar workers; fortnight ago, 5,000,000 workers quit their jobs in a one-day general walkout. Fanfani's year-old partnership with...
...Still, Fanfani figures to stay on top. Of the six nations in the Common Market, Italy's estimated 6% growth rate this year is the highest; at about 1,000,000, unemployment is half the 1956 level. Many Italians fear that flirtation with that old Stalin Prizewinner Pietro Nenni will eventually lead Italy down the path to neutralism. But so far, Nenni has pulled to the right in international affairs, away from his longtime Communist allies. He has even halfheartedly endorsed a NATO nuclear force. Nenni was probably saved a little Socialistic embarrassment when the U.S. recently agreed...
Item. In that same interval, Premier Amintore Fanfani returned from a visit to the White House and told the Italian Parliament that the Franco-German Treaty was a "menace". He stated explicitly that the President of the United States felt the same way. It can therefore be inferred (and was inferred) that the speech was cleared if not written in Washington. Similar statements were soon heard from the Benelux powers...
...problem is the personality of General de Gaulle. We are not only against his methods but also against his reasons, which are false." If Britain is left out, declared Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns, "the idea of a united Europe will be in crisis." Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani called it a menace to NATO itself...
...going to be a government crisis," he told a meeting of his party's central committee, "it's not going to be caused by us." Nenni has his eye on a Cabinet post in a new government; causing a crisis at the moment would be irresponsible, for Fanfani this week goes off to visit John F. Kennedy, and in a fortnight Harold Macmillan arrives in Rome. Fellow travelers in the Socialist high command were willing, even anxious, to topple the government, but as the party continued its talks at week's end, it appeared that Nenni...