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...Actor. Giuseppe Pella took office last August as a "caretaker" Premier, succeeding the experienced Alcide de Gasperi, and prepared to fade away after he got his budget through Parliament. But by last week, after he had been in office only 47 days, Italians inside Parliament and out were calling robust Giuseppe Pella uomo di equilibria (man of balance). Said a parliamentary deputy: "My bet is that five years from now [when national elections will be held], it will be Premier Pella who will be presenting his record to the voters for further approval...
Even if he had wanted to, Pella could not skitter or give ground. And he did not want to. Though he likes to refer to his government as a "transition" government, Pella does not intend it to be transitory. Having won support that even the renowned Alcide de Gasperi failed to win before him, the new Premier felt that he could consolidate his regime with a favorable Trieste settlement. To fortify him Pella had the solemn 1948 declaration of the U.S., Britain and France, in which they renounced previous positions and advocated the return of the Free Territory of Trieste...
Italy had a new Premier last Week. Sandy-haired Giuseppe Pella, the Piedmontese peasant's son (TIME, Aug. 24) who became Italy's firm-money Finance Minister after the war, did what his old boss, Alcide de Gasperi, was unable to do. He got the benevolent neutrality of Sara-gat's Socialists on the left and the monarchists' votes on the right, and thus won for his government a vote of confidence in the Senate and a surprising 100-vote majority in the Lower House. Pella insisted that his ambitions were modest: to run a quiet...
...parliamentary democracy while surrounded by parliamentarians dedicated to the destruction of democracy. The West had, at a crucial moment, lost its staunch apostle of NATO, EDC and European unification. "Italy may be entering upon a new period of political disturbance and uncertainty," mourned the London Times. "Signor de Gasperi's defeat is a shock to the complacency about the political stability of the Western world...
Patchwork of Cliques. For a new leader, the country could hardly look beyond De Gasperi's own Christian Democrats, who hold 40% of the Parliament, against 35% for the Reds and Red Socialists, 13% for the Monarchists and neoFascists. But without a shrewd bargainer and clever parliamentarian like De Gasperi to coalesce them, the Christian Democrats are not so much a single team as a patchwork of conflicting blocs and cliques which stretch from modified socialism to near monarchism. As his first choice for new Premier, President Einaudi reached to the party's right wing and picked Attilio...