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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...
...Merzagora. But Italy's political bosses, leftists and rightists alike, chorused righteously that Merzagora was "discrediting democratic institutions." After the secretary of the Christian Democratic Party complained that the corruption charge might even be "twisted" to apply to Christian Democrats, Merzagora resigned as Senate president. After that, President Gronchi and the party bosses settled down to the agreeable political dickering that, in time, will presumably produce another carefully weighted, immobilized compromise government very like Segni...
Italian newspapermen, scribbling furiously, cabled home long reports of "this mortifying episode," and Khrushchev's "crude frankness." Returning to Rome, Gronchi was roundly cheered at the airport, and praised for his demeanor by newspapers that had originally criticized his visit. It was the turn of the Italian Communist press, which had trumpeted his tour, to realize that the tour had badly misfired and angered Italian pride. Khrushchev, said Rome's conservative Il Messaggero bitterly, obviously looks upon Italy as "a country of beggars and singers...
...sometimes resembles a garrulous all-night disk jockey who does not expect his every word to be remembered and held against him. When Foreign Minister Pella reproached him afterwards for his conduct, Khrushchev shrugged: "Maybe you're right. But that's how I am." Taking hold of Gronchi's hand he asked: "You weren't at all offended by what I said, were...