Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balding little Mario Scelba began his premiership briskly last February by saying: "Now let's get down to business'." Though his majority was small, he announced bold projects to cure Italy's nagging ills, and acted as if he expected to launch them forthwith. Living up to his reputation as Italian Communism's chief scourge, which he had earned as De Gas-peri's Minister of the Interior, Scelba began auspiciously by ejecting Communist organizations from the lush premises they had seized from former Fascist owners and by evacuating government-employee unions (mostly Communist...
Mendès had hoped to win tentative Assembly approval without staking his premiership on the outcome, but the Assembly did not let him. Shortly before 1 a.m. on the second day of debate, the Premier, his voice thick with disgust, announced: "I must pose the question of confidence." That meant that the vote would be delayed until this week and if the Mendès government is beaten, the Cabinet would have to resign...
...concessions to the outside were not enough to restore stability within Colonel Nasser's tense little Revolutionary team. Through the week, the military council rumbled with repercussions from the turbulent events which tumbled Frontman Naguib out of the presidency and the premiership, then yanked him back, smiling and presumably of good heart, to exercise only the lesser, presidential half of his former powers, while Nasser himself became Premier. But behind the smiles lurked more troubles...
...weeks went by. Bell continued to watch and TIME to report the under cover play for power in Egyptian politics. Two months ago Bell advised New York: "It is believed that the decision to relieve Naguib of the premiership, leaving him only an Auriol-like status, has already been made...
...summer's elections, Saragat was now in the position of being able to make or break Premiers. For his 19 votes in the Chamber, Saragat demanded and got of Scelba four ministries -the strategic ministries of Finance, Public Works, Labor and Social Welfare-and for himself the vice-premiership (which he also held for two years under De Gasperi...