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...Work Is Not Limited." Last week, after a mixup in the counting showed that he had won his first vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies only by means of Fascist support, lifelong anti-Fascist Adone Zoli unhappily resigned (TIME, June 17). No sooner had Zoli departed than Gronchi, who also has firm ideas on domestic policy-he has long argued for admission of the Red-tinged Nenni Socialists into the government-issued a pronouncement. It jolted many of his fellow Christian Democrats to the core. Said the President: "My work is not limited to giving the country...
...anyone who likes living in a palace, presiding over state banquets and dedicating buildings, the presidency of Italy can be a highly rewarding seven-year job. But restless, silver-haired Giovanni Gronchi, who has held the post since 1955, has never adjusted himself to being a constitutional figurehead. He prefers power to pomp, any day. Last week, as Italy's latest political crisis dragged into its second month, Gronchi was well on his way to having both...
...fact that there was any crisis at all was partly Gronchi's doing. Premier Antonio Segni's government fell because of a split in the four-party coalition that has helped keep Christian Democratic Prime Ministers in office for the past four years. But Segni's position had been gravely weakened before he fell by Gronchi's rage when Segni's Foreign Minister refused to forward to President Eisenhower a private letter in which President Gronchi criticized U.S. policy in the Middle East. And it was clearly at Gronchi's behest that Segni...
...Camera." Gronchi requested conservative Senate President Cesare Merzagora to search the political horizon for possible Cabinets. Through this device Gronchi could extend his Cabinet-building negotiations to influential politicians who do not happen to be heads of parties, ex-Presidents or ex-Premiers-the only people Italy's President is constitutionally entitled to consult. And as he emerged from the President's office deep in the Quirinal Palace, Merzagora said: "In this situation I am merely a camera. I shall bring back precise and detailed photographs for the President of the Republic...
...only alternative to the coalition, pending next spring's general elections, was what Italians call a "single color" government-an all-Christian Democratic Cabinet which, since it would lack an assured majority in the Chamber of Deputies, could probably only survive by ducking controversial issues. At President Giovanni Gronchi's request, jovial Adone Zoli agreed to do his best to form such a government...