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June Treaty? But fortnight ago at Turin, De Gaulle won support for his proposal from Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani. In return, De Gaulle conceded specifically that: 1) a unified Europe will seek to strengthen, not undermine, the Atlantic Alliance; 2) heads of government will have no authority over the Common Market's economic affairs; 3) other existing supranational institutions, such as Europe's Coal & Steel Community, will remain independent...
West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, though previously committed to far-reaching European union, enthusiastically endorsed the idea after a conference with Fanfani earlier this month, now argues that it is the only immediately practical approach. With France and Italy. West Germany last week urged the Common Market's three other nations to commit themselves to confederation in a special treaty when they meet in Rome in June...
...risky reality. In effect, the Christian Democratic Party shed some of its right-wing allies in parliament and went into partnership with Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists, who had long been working closely with the Communists. Chief architect of the experiment is shrewd, scholarly Premier Amintore Fanfani, who believes that only through the Nenni alliance can he muster the votes needed for necessary domestic reforms (TIME, Feb. 9). But many left-wingers predict gloomily that Nenni will become a hostage of the right, while conservatives fear that Fanfani will become a hostage of the left. Rome...
Immediate Goals. Retaining his post as head of the new government, post-war Italy's 23rd, Fanfani reshuffled his previous Cabinet to eliminate Christian Democrats who opposed the controversial apertura. Leading absentee, ex-Interior Minister Mario Scelba, whose steel-helmeted riot police put down many a Red demonstration. Three seats, including the Ministry of the Treasury, went to Giuseppe Saragat's anti-Communist Social Democrats; moderate leftist Republicans received two portfolios, including the important Ministry of the Budget, which is responsible for long-range economic planning. To balance the shift leftward in domestic affairs, Fanfani kept on notable...
...Four such regions* were formed years ago, but since then the scheme was shelved by the Christian Democrats, who feared that Communists, alone or allied with the Nenni Socialists, would build up powerful grass-roots political machines. Giovanni Malagodi, leader of the free-enterprising Liberals, who were dropped from Fanfani's coalition, warned that the rearrangement would make possible "a federation of little Red republics" in such Communist strongholds as Umbria, Tuscany and Emilia...