Word: fanfani
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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Though Scelba is Premier, the head of the party (and its real organizational strongman) is Amintore Fanfani. Fanfani, who wants to be Premier again himself some day, has supported the Scelba government publicly. But he has been careful not to identify himself with it, and is not in the Cabinet. He has often been privately critical. Fanfani could bring down the government now. But he would rather wait until he judges the moment ripe, and his own political machine ready, for a new election. Fanfani's temporizing contributes to immobilismo...
Youth was knocking at the door, politely but firmly. In as party secretary general stepped brisk, bright, 46-year-old Amintore Fanfani, an economist with a flair for politics and an eye for power. Fanfani led his Democratic Initiative faction to a clean sweep of party offices at Naples a month ago, thus made himself De Gasperi's logical successor (TIME, July 12). He knows the government like a stock table, having served in six cabinets as Minister of Labor, Agriculture and Interior and briefly as Premier earlier this year. "I am sure," De Gasperi once prophesied, "that...
Last week, as Fanfani took the desk, he moved with the smooth punctilio that Italians appreciate and practice. Some pleasant "understandings" were quietly arranged. First Fanfani "urged" De Gasperi to continue as party secretary, and professed to be surprised when the old man said no. Presumably Fanfani then promised to back De Gasperi for President of Italy, a job with more prestige than power, which will probably fall vacant when 81-year-old Luigi Einaudi finishes his seven-year term next May. Fanfani also reportedly gave assurances of continued backing to the government of fellow Demo-Christian Mario Scelba...
...meeting of the National Council, Fanfani called De Gasperi "our teacher and guide," Scelba "my dear friend," and proposed that the council elect to membership his two chief opponents, Giuseppe Pella of the Demo-Christian right wing, and Giovanni Gronchi of the left, who had been passed over at Naples. In his short acceptance speech, Fanfani used the word friend 50 times. His friendliness proved contagious: the changeover was completely harmonious...
...high standard of living." De Gasperi summed up: "Our notion of social justice is to raise the poorer classes to a higher standard of living, to narrow the difference between all classes, and, above all, to abolish the pauper class." It was the voting, however, that actually measured Amintore Fanfani's new power. Seventeen out of 18 new regional members of the National Party Council, and 34 out of 42 new members at large, are supporters of Fanfani's Democratic Initiative. These victories might have alarmed the party's conservative old guard, and even brought...