Word: mario
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Secure for a while at least with a small parliamentary majority, Italy's Premier Mario Scelba last week announced that he was launching a head-on assault against the nation's No. I problem-the Italian Communist Party, which is the largest, richest and most powerful in the West. The trackdown was good news to Italy's antiCommunists, many of whom have felt such a move to be long overdue. It was good news for U.S. strategists, for whom the Italian party has lately loomed as. a real threat to NATO, EDC and the basic free-world...
Aware that the Communists can never be really checked until democratic government fits itself to fulfill Italy's pressing economic and social needs, busy Mario Scelba also took steps last week to do some cleaning up within his government. His Cabinet proposed to trim down Italy's vast and oppressive bureaucracy...
Before Italy's Chamber of Deputies, Premier Mario Scelba spoke solemnly of affairs of state-taxes and governmental reform, his government's support of EDC, the dangers of Communism and neo-Fascism. But the immediate threat to his new regime involved none of these, nor did it lie within the walls of the chamber. It came from a courtroom a few blocks away, where, as Scelba urged the Deputies to confirm his Cabinet, there unfolded an unsavory story of corruption in high places, of playgirls and midnight orgies and expensive decadence revolving around the figure of a marchese...
Subjected to a drizzle of Communist strikes, tugged at by the angry orators of the extreme right and left, Premier Mario Scelba's coalition submitted last week to the first crucial test of its ability to stick together and govern Italy. The scene was the Senate, where the new Scelba Cabinet had to win its first confidence vote...
Against such formidable opposition, Mario Scelba needed every vote and every boost he could muster. The most dramatic boost came from a distinguished quarter: Don Luigi Sturzo, the aged (82) priest who founded the Christian Democratic Party but now lives deep in the background like a brooding, often disapproving party conscience. Because Catholic Italy resents clericalism in politics, Christian Democratic leaders like Alcide de Gasperi try to minimize their ties with the Vatican, but that is not enough for Don Sturzo; he objects to any relationship at all. Last week Don Luigi paid a rare visit to the Senate, where...