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...military, branch of NATO. But as the foreign ministers gathered in Paris this week, a rare expectancy was in the air. NATO's leading nation had at last accepted the proposition put forward long ago by Canada's "Mike" Pearson and Italy's Giovanni Gronchi-that NATO should broaden its strictly military base and serve as the free world's chosen instrument in politics and economics...
...friendly-looking man behind the thick-lensed glasses peered around him at the triumphal archway, the red, white, and green Italian flags, the guards of honor, the crowds, the bands, the bannered words of welcome: BENVENUTO AL PRESIDENTE GRONCHI. Along Pennsylvania Avenue he rode at a stately pace, surrounded by the trappings accorded only to the nation's most distinguished visitors, amid the resounding music of military bands. At the White House President Eisenhower was waiting on the steps. "So good to see you," Eisenhower greeted his visitor. "It is the first time an Italian President has visited this...
...Discus Thrower. For four days last week the leaders of the U.S. greeted Giovanni Gronchi with unusual warmth and attention. Gronchi had consultations with Eisenhower, dined and wined with Dulles and Nixon, talked international labor with the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s George Meany. Guards of honor presented arms when Gronchi laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the National Gallery of Art stayed open after closing time to accommodate Gronchi's handsome signora. At the gallery Gronchi told his guides how much he admired its selections from the work of his countryman, Fra Angelico...
...rose garden of the White House, Gronchi presented to Eisenhower a bronze reproduction of The Discus Thrower and a grey granite pillar surmounted by a white marble capital. In thanks, Eisenhower said: "As you know, we have millions of citizens of Italian derivation...
...Leaning Tower. Gronchi's visit to the U.S., like Gronchi's conception of the presidency of Italy, was something much more than an exercise in ceremonial. In company with Italy's Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino, he twice reviewed current Italian and international problems with Eisenhower and his staff, as the State Department put it, "on a high plane." Gronchi assured his U.S. hosts that he warmly supported the Western alliance, that he deeply detested Communism, that his widely reported policy of "the opening to the left" connoted not neutralism but social reform...