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...made a personal trip out the New Appian Way to a convent where resides frail Don Luigi Sturzo, the aged priest who founded the Christian Democrat Party, was once Scelba's mentor (see box). Though Scelba was unable to persuade the last two Premiers (Amintore Fanfani and Giuseppe Pella) to serve in his cabinet, Attilio Piccioni, a right-winger, agreed to stay on as Foreign Minister. Scelba decided to be his own Interior Minister, a job he had for six years...
Quarreling Politicos. In a caucus last week, the divided Christian Democrats fell to arguing bitterly. One of them reproached Amintore Fanfani for insisting on a showdown in the Chamber of Deputies even when it was clear he would lose (TIME, Feb. 8). Fanfani in reply cast a reflection on his critic's political past. The critic recalled hotly that Fanfani had once been a Fascist Party member. Fanfani next had words with his immediate senior in the ranks of fallen Premiers, Giuseppe Pella. Pella, said Fanfani to the caucus, had told him that politics was "such a dirty business...
...contest was really all over. But the lions and jackals, not yet sated with crisis, would not be denied their sport. For the next two days the old Montecitorio Palace, which houses Parliament, was Rome's modern-day Colosseum and Amintore Fanfani its doomed Christian. Giuseppe Saragat, who held the power to install Fanfani and his democratic Cabinet by a thin margin, alibied that the Premier was trying to appear to be leftist, and yet was compromising with the Monarchists. "One cannot turn toward us and at the same time turn toward the right," said he in an emotional...
Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni stalked the prey with a snarl. "We had hoped that Fanfani would prove to be the mouthpiece of the new, active spirit of the Catholic left," he said, "but instead, he reveals in the most stupefying and offensive way his conception of the corporate and paternalis tic state. Fanfani, your government is ... as dead as a sad smoked herring...
...Fanfani." Close to 6 on a rainy afternoon, word got around that the two most dramatic antagonists in Italy, Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti and Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi, would meet in parliamentary combat. The galleries filled up and the chamber hushed for the performance of Italy's brilliant Red orator...