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Some sort of shake-up in Italy's government seemed inevitable as a result of the recent elections in which the Reds held their own, and right-wing parties made substantial gains (TIME, June 11). The big question: Could Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi trim his sails to the new winds merely by reshuffling his cabinet, or would his coalition government collapse after 5½ years of rule? Last week Treasury Minister Giuseppe Pella resigned because of opposition from both extreme right and extreme left to his anti-inflationary budget plan. When Pella refused to reconsider, all the other...
Next step, a request by Italy's President Luigi Einaudi-probably directed to De Gasperi-to form a new government...
...Rome, toward the end of her grand tour, Margaret Truman had an audience with Pope Pius XII, a 15-minute chat in which he sent "very special greetings" to her father, and gave Margaret a silver Madonna medal. That afternoon she sipped tea with Premier Alcide de Gasperi, then topped the day off by shaking hands for two hours in the receiving line at U.S. Ambassador James C. Dunn's reception...
...Communists achieved their gain after years of Marshall Plan aid to Italy, at a time when the country was probably in better economic shape than at any time in modern history, and despite the Roman Catholic Church's strong intervention for the Demo-Christian De Gasperi. Italian politicians had some explanations...
...Catholic Church had strongly rallied to De Gasperi's side. The archbishops and bishops of Tuscany proclaimed: "Voters who give their votes to parties professing doctrines contrary to the Catholic faith commit a mortal sin." Why had Church intervention not produced a bigger anti-Communist vote? Explained the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: Not all Italians "born Catholic, and even professing still to be so, are .. . faithful followers of the Church...