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Cheap at the Price. The emergence of rumpled, chubby Silvio Milazzo, 56, as the voice of his island's traditional separatism had typically Sicilian origins. A Christian Democrat since early youth, Landowner Milazzo was a reliable party wheel horse up to the time ambitious former Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani (TIME, May 26, 1958 et seq.) began to slip his bright young men from Rome into Sicily's Christian Democratic organization. Last October, outraged by this infringement on Sicilian autonomy (and threat to Sicilian patronage), Milazzo bolted the party. He managed to get control of the regional assembly...
When proud little Amintore Fanfani resigned as Premier three weeks ago, Italy's big Christian Democratic Party seemed hopelessly divided against itself and listing to the left. The Christian Democrats lack 26 votes of a majority in the Chamber of Deputies, and Fanfani was kept in office only by the support of Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats. When some of the Social Democrats, hoodwinked by Red-lining Pietro Nenni's latest simulated split with the Communists, began to negotiate a deal with Nenni's Socialists, Fanfani was finished. After days of maneuvering, President Giovanni Gronchi...
That was the opposite slant from the Christian Democratic Socialist government of Amintore Fanfani who resigned as premier Jan. 26 under fire from both wings of his shaky coalition...
Added to these personal vendettas was the distaste of right-wing Christian Democrats for Fanfani's "opening to the left" solution to Italy's economic problems. On open votes of confidence, Fanfani won dutiful majorities. But on secret ballots, the right-wingers harassed, hamstrung and even outvoted Fanfani so that he never really got a chance to function as Premier. They did so without regret. "Talk about sniping," said one Roman pundit. "Fanfani practically invented...
After a week in which Fanfani could form no new government, and no one else of stature seemed prepared to form a government either, with Fanfani likely to snipe, a surprising event occurred. Professing himself disillusioned and "disgusted with politics," Fanfani, in a note pounded out on his own typewriter, abruptly resigned as party secretary "in order to eliminate any obstacles to the indispensable work of unity." And when dismayed leaders of the Christian Democratic machine urged him to reconsider, proud Amintore Fanfani bitterly replied: "Even if I were once again named Premier, I would not accept...