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...into voting down a trivial nursery-school bill in the Chamber of Deputies. Fanfani wanted more than to just get back into the Cabinet. He wanted Moro out. So he persuaded the right wing of the Christian Democrats to insist on the inclusion of their leader, ex-Premier Mario Scelba, in any new Cabinet. Why? Because, naturally, as a bitter foe of the left, Scelba was certain to be rejected by Moro's Socialist coalition partners, and thereby force a new deadlock to plague Moro...
...Bari, who never drives above 35 m.p.h. and maintains that he would only be caught dead in an airplane. But he possesses a virtue rare in Italy. He is a born listener. He patiently attended while the feuding faction leaders talked themselves out, then shyly pointed out to Scelba's fans that they were being used as Fanfani's tools. With that, the rightists withdrew Scelba's Cabinet candidacy, settled for two new lesser Cabinet posts. Fanfani was not consulted until everything else was set. Then Moro told a minor Senator to call him and offer...
Only Solution. Red jubilance was matched by continued dissension in the Christian Democratic Party. Focus of blame for the party's 4% drop in votes is Premier Amintore Fanfani. Hardfisted Deputy Mario Scelba declared Red success "is the fruit of our mistakes and not of the superiority of Communist ideals." Scelba and others of the center and right strongly oppose a continuance of the apertura a sinistra, the so-called opening to the left, initiated last year by Fanfani when he formed his alliance with Pietro Nenni's Socialists. Trouble is, no other alliance seems feasible...
Immediate Goals. Retaining his post as head of the new government, post-war Italy's 23rd, Fanfani reshuffled his previous Cabinet to eliminate Christian Democrats who opposed the controversial apertura. Leading absentee, ex-Interior Minister Mario Scelba, whose steel-helmeted riot police put down many a Red demonstration. Three seats, including the Ministry of the Treasury, went to Giuseppe Saragat's anti-Communist Social Democrats; moderate leftist Republicans received two portfolios, including the important Ministry of the Budget, which is responsible for long-range economic planning. To balance the shift leftward in domestic affairs, Fanfani kept on notable...
...control of the Christian Democratic Party, Fanfani had performed a useful service by remolding the party machinery in his own efficient image: late to bed, early to rise, always on the job. Trouble was that by ruthless pursuit of his own ambitions, Fanfani had made enemies. Ex-Premier Mario Scelba, whose government Fanfani tumbled by backstage maneuvering in 1955, was not inclined to forgive or forget. Formidable Giuseppe Pella, still probably the most popular Demo-Christian politician in Italy, had two grievances: Fanfani helped overturn Pella's government in 1954, dropped Pella as Foreign Minister last July...