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Saragat, a staunch antiCommunist, who is not satisfied that Nenni has really broken with Moscow, managed to resist the pressure until last week. Then, seizing on the behind-scenes maneuvers of Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi (who not long ago outraged the Segni Cabinet by proposing to send a neutralist letter to Ike), Saragat suddenly charged that within the Christian Democratic Party itself there were forces guilty of "silent hostility" to Segni's pro-Western foreign policy. "For 22 months," intoned Saragat righteously, "we Social Democrats have kept the faith. Now we must withdraw." Left with only...
...would like to return to my students," said old Professor Segni with a broad smile. For the moment, President Gronchi and resigned Premier Segni (who may be asked to serve again) were too busy welcoming French President René Coty to Rome to give any attention to forming a new government. Though Coty's state visit caught them in a Cabinet crisis, Italians were not embarrassed. "After all," said a Roman politician, "Coty is a Frenchman. He will understand...
...gaiety in Rome. St. Patrick's Day was Pat's birthday (44), and in a large sitting room of the Grand Hotel she had a party, puffed out 21 candles, cut a giant four-tier cake, received a basket of roses from Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi, and from the Nixon press party an ivory-handled umbrella...
...mind for defiance of constitutional processes. As gracefully as possible, the Premier resigned himself to paying the price-a new set of laws to replace the Fascist statutes thrown out by the court. On Segni's promise, the revered Chief Justice fired off a letter to President Giovanni Gronchi withdrawing his resignation. "It is my duty," De Nicola wrote blandly, "to bow to your will with profound devotion...
...longer in fear of an armed Communist takeover, the Parliament last Decemher finally brought the court into being, under pressure from President Giovanni Gronchi. On the evening of the day he was inaugurated as president of the court, 78-year-old Enrico de Nicola called his colleagues into session to consider several score of cases involving alleged violations of constitutional rights...