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...invitation of President Eisenhower, Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi (pronounced Gron-key) will arrive in the U.S. next week for a 13-day visit...
Early Career: Born Sept. 10, 1887, near Pisa, to a family of modest means. His father was an accountant and a salami salesman. Forced to work to put himself through college, Gronchi joined the Catholic workers' movement while still a student, beginning a lifelong passion for politics; fought and was decorated three times for bravery in World...
...from Cornerstones. In Gronchi's nine months in office, Stevens noted as he entered Quirinale Palace between gleaming rows of grenadier guards, Gronchi has brought back much of the pomp and ceremony that went out with King Umberto II in 1946. In that brief time, Giovanni Gronchi has also managed, by double force of his ambition and his personality, to raise the presidency from the cornerstone-laying, banquet-attending job it started out to be. "Not only does he intrude on the [Premier's] powers," Stevens reported, "he also crowds him out of the limelight and steals...
...good or ill, Signor Gronchi's views are sure to exert more and more weight on Italian policy at home and abroad in the next several years. This veteran politician and spokesman for the Christian Democratic left, whom the late Alcide de Gasperi deeply mistrusted, refuses to be a ceremonial figurehead of state. Despite constitutional limitations, he has jockeyed himself into a position where, as President, he can make or break Premiers almost if not quite in the manner of the absolute monarch...
...visit's end, I inquired whether Signor Gronchi really intended repeating everything he told me to Mr. Eisenhower. All that and more, he answered, adding 'I believe in frankness...