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Wrote Journalist Luigi Barzini in Corriere Delia Sera on the day after Ike's arrival in Rome: "We welcome this man who speaks to us with the accent of Kansas of farmers who cultivate fields of wheat as vast as seas, of pioneers who went West not long before his birth. He speaks without rhetoric before the imminent peril as he calls for 'Peace, Peace,' -but not peace for the sake of quiet or lack of principle, but peace in which free men believe...
...Long Live Peace." In his brief airport statement, Ike delivered his theme message of "peace and friendship in freedom," noted that in the U.S. more than 10 million Italian-descended citizens claim heritage "from the Italian civilization." Then he got into Gronchi's official Fiat, drove the long way into Rome along the Old Appian Way-the historic route. Crowd turnout in the heavy rain: thin. The motorcade rolled through the Gate of San Sebastiano, past the Baths of Caracalla and the Colosseum, into the Piazza Venezia, where Mussolini used to strut and harangue. Even there, only...
...procession rolled up to the Quirinale Palace, where the President and his party were to stay, Italy's President Gronchi seemed acutely embarrassed about the rain-splashed welcome. "Ah, Mr. President," said Gronchi, with a sad-eyed shrug. Ike reached out and patted Gronchi on the sleeve, said he felt that the welcome had been very warm, expressed understanding about the bad weather. And in the splendid patina of the Quirinale, the party's spirits picked up. That afternoon Ike found time for a nap. His son Major John and Daughter-in-Law Barbara explored the sprawling, centuries...
Journey to Understanding (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Picks up Ike again on Pearl Harbor Day, covers his weekend in Rome...
While it is apparent what might be accomplished by Ike's Grand Tour through Asia his attempt to pursue the same approach in Europe reveals the failure of his administration to come to gripes with the concrete problems of western alliance. Le grande de Gaulle is unlikely to be swayed by Ike's folksiness. Nor does the "new Eisenhower" seem much more likely than the old Ike to restore unity within the alliance over the timing of a summit conference, the solution to the problem of Germany, or the developing clash between the inner six and the outer seven...