Word: giovannis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians say that they have none. But in Italy, the question dogs the Communists in every election. In the Neapolitan district of Mergellina, an association of several hundred mothers holds regular meetings and petitions Parliament for word of their sons in Russia. When Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi was in Moscow last month, his wife, Donna Carla Gronchi, demanded an official accounting on behalf of the Italian Red Cross. "I asked for documentation for every one of the missing," she said, "and if any one of them is dead, I want to know how he died, why he died...
Merzagora's political patience was exhausted by the extralegal manner in which Segni's minority Christian Democratic government tiptoed out of office. Fortnight ago, outraged by President Giovanni Gronchi's humiliating visit to Moscow (TIME, Feb. 22) and convinced that the Christian Democrats were slipping toward an "unclear and unclean agreement" with Italy's big, Red-tainted Socialist Party, Italy's free-enterprising Liberals announced that their 18 Deputies would no longer support Segni. Since this meant that his government could survive only by accepting Fascist support, Segni resigned without even asking for a vote...
Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi, 72, was all aglow with anticipation. In flying off to Moscow, Christian Democrat Gronchi had overridden the protests of his ministers, had so vexed the Vatican that Italy's Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani had publicly denounced "men of high responsibility in the West" for their readiness "to shake the hand that slapped Christ in the face." But to restless Giovanni Gronchi, who believes in "an opening to the left," the Moscow trip seemed a prime chance to prove his mediating talents and to make Italy something more than just a junior partner...
...Vatican was not happy about Nikita Khrushchev's glad-handing barnstorm through the U.S., opposed the proposed (and now postponed) trip of Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi to Russia. Last week tough-minded, conservative Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office, took the occasion of a Mass before a group of refugees from Communist countries to deliver some hard words...