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...Hall of Mirrors of Rome's block-long Quirinale Palace. Italy's 70-year-old President Giovanni Gronchi swore in his good friend Amintore Fanfani, 50, as Premier, along with a Cabinet of 19. Not since Italy became a Republic after World War II had an Italian government leaned so far to the left...
Wanted: 26 Votes. A former economics professor at Milan's Catholic University and author of 16 books on economics who spent the war years instructing students at internment camps in Switzerland, Amintore Fanfani rose fast once he entered politics after the war. After a succession of ministerial posts under De Gasperi, he had one fling at the premiership in 1954, but lasted only twelve days: the Chamber of Deputies ousted him on the first vote he faced...
...Unfazed, Fanfani turned his great administrative talents to reorganizing the Christian Democratic Party, was largely responsible for the 1.5 million new votes and ten new Chamber seats that the party won in May. But the Christian Democrats failed to win the absolute majority of seats that would have permitted them to govern without help from other parties. Whoever became Premier would have to turn left or right for 26 more votes...
...Spare. An outspoken advocate of New Dealish reforms in Italy, Fanfani promptly looked left. Aided by Italy's Christian Democratic President Giovanni Gronchi, Fanfani won agreement from Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats to join him in a left-of-center anti-Communist coalition. The Christian Democrats' 272 votes and the Social Democrats' 22 votes still fell four short of a majority in the Chamber. With the votes of one French-speaking and three German-speaking Deputies from autonomous border regions, and the support of Typewriter Tycoon Adriano Olivetti, who captured one seat for his "Community" movement...
With such a slim margin, and against the hostility of right-wing members of his own party, Fanfani would have difficulty putting over his 20-point social and economic program. But there was widespread supposition that once Fanfani got in office, this extremely practical intellectual might be around a while. The national weekly Tempo boldly hailed Fanfani as '"the man who will govern us for the next five years...