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...Maria Meneghini Callas from all of Italy's state-subsidized opera houses. Her offense: on opening night at the Rome Opera, Callas had walked out of a performance of Bellini's Norma after the first act, leaving behind her a glittering audience of notables, including President Giovanni Gronchi...
...private talk recently, Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi once again urged his old friend, Left-Wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni, to break with the Communists. Sadly Nenni replied: "That's exactly what I'm trying to do. But it isn't easy, Dio mio, it isn't easy." Last week, for the first time in ten years, Nenni broke with the public Communist line on a fundamental policy issue. European unity. But Dio mio, it wasn't easy...
...fault that he was Premier of Italy. True to his original promise, he had resigned office just as soon as the tellers finally confirmed that without Fascist support he would have been one vote short of a majority (TIME, June 17). But when President Giovanni Gronchi, unable to find anyone else, coolly declared that Zoli was still Premier, "I felt," burbled Zoli into the silence, "that I had to accede to so high an authority." So ended Italy's longest political crisis (52 days) since the one that preceded Mussolini's accession to power. Said one Roman politician...
...while last week, sleek and shrewd Amintore Fanfani, organizational boss of the Christian Democratic Party, tried to establish an Italian government. When Fanfani failed, Italy's ambitious President Giovanni Gronchi pulled a surprise. He renamed as Premier rotund, outspoken Adone Zoli, who tried and failed last month to form a government. Blandly reminding one and all that he had never accepted Zoli's resignation, the President informed Zoli that he is thus still Premier. Question: Will the Italian Chamber of Deputies think...
Gloomily, many Italian moderates concluded that the photograph for which Giovanni Gronchi was waiting was a jolly group shot of the Christian Democrats and Nenni Socialists arm in arm, singing Carry Us Back to Neo-Atlantism...