Word: scelba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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, delivered by a spokesman: "The Vatican welcomes this induction of new energy in the Christian Democratic Party, without of course disparaging for one moment the paramount...
...even seek a government post, but seemed content to work with the Scelba government, and to talk of party harmony and party welfare...
Youth Is Served. The big man of the congress was not Ex-Premier Alcide de Gasperi, 73, now the party's secretary general, or Premier Mario Scelba, who has held the government together since February. It was skillful Politico Amintore Fanfani, 46, who heads a left-of-center Demo-Christian faction called Democratic Initiative. A short, stocky Tuscan, an ex-professor of economics, Fanfani was successively a Minister of Labor, Agriculture and Interior, and he knows the government like the back of his hand. Last winter he tried and failed to form a government as Premier. Since then...
...hope it will be," she told reporters before she left, "and if EDC can be ratified by Italy, then this country within the next two years will begin to play a much more active and dynamic role in foreign affairs than at any time since 1948." Premier Mario Scelba's government seems more and more to promise "a stability for Italy that no one could have foreseen three to four months ago." Though the Communist threat has not diminished, Scelba's firm hand and activity of the free trade unions has done much in twelve months to overcome...
Last week Italy's fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists called for its repeal. Premier Mario Scelba (who as De Gasperi's Interior Minister had conceived the law) lent his support to its repeal. The vote: 427 to 75. In renouncing his own law and in joining with the Reds in repealing it, Scelba confessed a galling defeat but did himself no political harm. His government has now lasted four months in office and shows signs of staying power...