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...First Fanfani "urged" De Gasperi to continue as party secretary, and professed to be surprised when the old man said no. Presumably Fanfani then promised to back De Gasperi for President of Italy, a job with more prestige than power, which will probably fall vacant when 81-year-old Luigi Einaudi finishes his seven-year term next May. Fanfani also reportedly gave assurances of continued backing to the government of fellow Demo-Christian Mario Scelba, and promised that for the next year, at least, he would not seek public office. He arranged for the Vatican's vital nihil obstat...
...palatable reading on such subjects as the folly of an old fool in love (Pratolini's A Mistress of Twenty, Italo Svevo's This Indolence of Mine), the dark rapture of revenge (Cesare Pavese's The Leather Jacket), and the metaphysical pingpong of illusion v. reality (Luigi Pirandello...
Italy has few more appealing public figures than Don Luigi Sturzo, the white-haired priest who founded the Christian Democratic Party, and Giorgio La Pira, the bustling little mayor of Florence. Both are ardent Roman Catholics who believe in infusing militant Christian principle into politics. Both are men of compassion and understanding. Both believe in putting into practice the words of the Gospels. But they emphatically disagree on one vital point: the role of the state in human affairs...
Last week readers of Rome's conservative Giornale d'ltalia were treated to a front-page debate between Don Luigi, venerable foe of statism and apostle of enlightened individualism (TIME. March 8), and Mayor La Pira, a man who insists that a man's job is as much a piece of property as a man's land, that it is the state's duty to help every citizen have "a job, a house and music...
From his book-cluttered room in a Roman convent, Don Luigi penned a reply for Giornale's front page: "La Pira is saying that the problem can be solved by the state taking over the nation's financial system entirely, thus abolishing that one-fourth of the productive system of Italy that is still in private hands. This would mean that Italy would have complete state socialism . . . First, let's get this straight. La Pira, a good Christian, wants no God but the true God. He thinks, as I do, that the state is a means...