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When Clare Boothe Luce stepped off the Italian liner Andrea Doria in April, 1953 to become U.S. ambassador to Italy, she walked into a nation in crisis. The Italian national elections were just coming up. Communists and monarchists were closing in from left and right on the teetering Christian Democratic government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communist daily L'Unita, eager to slander the U.S., hooted at her as a "comicopera ambassador." A rightist magazine hailed her arrival with a full-page cartoon of an American flag trimmed with lace. Last week when Clare Luce, 53, resigned...
...Rome the Christian Democrats increased their vote by 13 percent but lost twelve of their 39 seats. In Bologna, the only city over 250,000 to go Communist, burly Red Mayor Giuseppe Dozza routed his ascetic challenger, Giuseppe Dossetti. In Naples free-spending Millionaire-Monarchist Achille Lauro won so resoundingly that newspapers dubbed him "Achille the First, King of Naples...
...poet he was, but a public one. In politics he ran a banner-waving, pamphlet-strewn, populace-stirring course-monarchist, Bonapartist, finally a rebel and exile who came to be called "Grandfather of the Republic." "It is ill praise to give a man that his politics have never changed for 40 years," he explained. "That is no more than to praise water for being stagnant, a tree for being dead...
...parliamentary form. Before the Italian Chamber was an uninspired piece of legislation aimed at modifying an old Fascist law which gave extensive authority to military courts. For support of the mild proposed modification, the Christian Democrats depended on the votes of Italy's Monarchist and neo-Fascist right...
...alone, the Demo-Christians staged 511 parlate, big and small, all over the island, which is about the size of Vermont. This week the big attraction will be Premier Scelba, the lawyer son of a Sicilian sharecropper. The Communists, bringing over 800 mainland activists, staged almost 200 parlate. The Monarchists with funds from their lavish Neapolitan leader, Achille Lauro, passed out empty wallets at one rally and promised that a Monarchist regime would fill them with lire...