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...hour if I would try to express what I really believe about it." There was a nervous laugh in the room and a whispered "Please don't." After three minutes on the Red Cross, Ike spent a minute talking about the visit of Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi and Signora Gronchi. Then he wanted "to mention two bills that are before Congress," the farm program and the Upper Colorado River development bill. By that time, under the glare of the television lights, the temperature in the room was rising and the pressure on the reporters had risen...
...became a teacher of Italian at a technical school, helped found Don Luigi Sturzo's Popular Party (forerunner of the Christian Democrats). Elected to Parliament in 1919, he served briefly in Mussolini's first government, but when Mussolini began to show his iron hand, Gronchi resigned. Barred from teaching because he refused to take the Fascist oath of allegiance, he became a salesman, first of neckties, then of American-made paints, worked his way up and ended as owner of a prosperous synthetic-varnish factory...
...President: Succeeding the first President of the Italian Republic, old (81), mild Luigi Einaudi, who contented himself with cornerstone laying and self-effacement, Gronchi has attempted to build up the prestige and power of the presidency. He has stepped up pomp and circumstance of the Quirinal Palace itself, which is guarded by 120 of the most imposing soldiers in Italy, the 6-ft.-6-in. cuirassiers. Has made more speeches and covered more miles in his first nine months than Einaudi did in seven years. In contrast to Einaudi, he accepts petitions, receives delegations, summons government ministers to discuss their...
Opinions & Views: Long a leader of the left wing of the Christian Democrats, Gronchi was a leading and early advocate of the "opening to the left." But he has vigorously disowned a Christian Science Monitor story by Correspondent Edmund Stevens (TIME, Feb. 13), which quoted him as in effect favoring a popular front with Nenni's Socialists. (Correspondent Stevens, now in Moscow for Look, stands by his story.) Gronchi has had occasion before to address himself colorfully to suspicions of his commitment to the West. Said he last year: "For eight years they depicted me as an enemy...
...advisers describes Gronchi's politics as New Dealism with a strong admixture of Roman Catholic liberal thought. He believes that to fight Communism, the Christian Democrats must get nearer the working class and present a progressive program which Nenni's fellow travelers would be compelled to support. He has never urged, say his advisers, that Nenni's Socialists be brought into government...