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...Italy was taking a new look at Amintore Fanfani, who had just stepped forward to be his country's new Premier...
Apples on the Desk. In World War II, Fanfani escaped Mussolini's draft by fleeing to Switzerland, where (together with Italian President Luigi Einaudi) he taught Italian students in internment camps. Ambitious, aggressive and a disciplinarian (he says he believes in authority, efficiency, and the Sermon on the Mount), Fanfani after the war, took on a succession of ministries under Premier Alcide de Gasperi. As Minister of Labor, he developed the "Fanfani house" program which so far has produced more than 7,700 government-built workers' homes; he put 200,000 of Italy's many unemployed...
Once, when someone proposed Fanfani for still another ministry, De Gasperi refused. "If I keep on appointing Fanfani to various ministries." he said. "I am sure that one of these days I will open the door to my study and find Fanfani sitting at my desk...
Twenty-four hours after the government fell, the Christian Democratic high command gathered in the home of Alcide de Gasperi. It briskly agreed on a program (more reforms, more vigorous measures against Red-led violence, unemployment remedies), and nominated Fanfani as its candidate for Premier. Fanfani, the shrewd politician, hoped to widen his support by getting Right-Winger Attilio Pic-cioni as his Vice Premier. There were signs this week that politicians from left to right might have become enough aware of the common peril to rally around Fanfani. Even one group of Monarchists hinted that they might support...