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Rome (1 day, 22 hours): Airport greeting from Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi; conference with Italy's Premier Antonio Segni (who has long complained privately that the U.S. takes loyal ally Italy for granted); round of official lurches and dinners (nothing more formal than black tie on the whole trip); private Sunday audience with Pope John XXIII, after which Ike will leave the Vatican by helicopter for the airport...
Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi, 72, is a left-minded politician serving a seven-year term of office in the ornate, mirrored Quirinale Palace, which he considers a gilded cage. Playing host to the beauteous Grace Kelly and her husband, the Prince of Monaco, as he did fortnight ago, comes under the heading of work; Gronchi longs to play a more vital role in world politics...
...Gronchi fancies himself ideally suited to mediate between East and West. He got his chance when an Italian official brought back word that Khrushchev would be glad to have Gronchi as a guest in the Kremlin. Gronchi was willing, but not all Italians cheered. The Vatican Radio gave pointed prominence to an article in La Civilta Cattolica that said that "the cold war cannot be solved by smiles and handshakes."' Il Quotidiano, the news organ of Catholic Action, declared that "Gronchi's proposed trip is a source of serious concern to all Catholics...
Himself a Catholic and a key figure in the Christian Democratic Party, Gronchi was so annoyed by the Vatican's attitude that he grumbled aloud that "among other matters subject to revision" was the Lateran Treaty of 1929, which regulates relations between church and state in Italy. In the end Italy's Cabinet approved Gronchi's mission to Moscow in January, but also unanimously agreed that any exchange of visits should be limited to "heads of state, to avoid the possibility that Khrushchev could reciprocate by coming to Italy." Russia's aging figurehead. President Kliment Voroshilov...
...regicide. The other was amnesty-the sovereign's gift of grace. We still have amnesty-so, for the next six months, don't leave your car unattended, and keep your hand on your wallet." Under the fourth general amnesty since 1945, signed into law by President Giovanni Gronchi last week, some 15,000 convicted criminals-and perhaps as many as 100,000 offenders still unsentenced-will walk scot-free out of Italy's jails. Unlike a pardon, which wipes out the penalty, an amnesty expunges the crime. The categories of criminals admitted to amnesty last week included...