Word: scelba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's Turn. The haggling with Tito over for the moment, the negotiators called in Italy's London Ambassador Manlio Brosio last week and advised him of the terms. He flew to Rome, nominally to attend his niece's wedding, but actually to inform Premier Mario Scelba's government, which has done its best to keep the subject quiet. Now it would be Italy's turn to negotiate, to redraw the map, and to bargain for advantages. This would take weeks, perhaps months. But progress was being made-and that was good news...
...Monarchist promise to support EDC. At that point, the man for whom the Monarchists presumably exist-49-year-old ex-King Umberto-sent a message from exile in Portugal which in effect scolded the Covelli faction and urged that Italy align itself with "a federated Europe." Help to Scelba. Last week the two factions broke apart. Covelli summoned a meeting of the party; Lauro canceled it: Covelli rescheduled it. Thereupon Achille Lauro broke from Covelli, set up a dissident party called the Popular Monarchists. Lauro's principal followers, mostly other shipowners, went along with him ("The fleet has deserted...
...Prime Minister Mario Scelba, sure at best of a majority of only 16 votes in the Chamber, even a small chipping away at hostile strength was helpful. With Lauro's support, the government could count on another half dozen votes on important showdowns in the Chamber-including the one in which Italy must soon decide whether or not to join the European Army...
After the fall of Dienbienphu, Italy's Premier Mario Scelba and Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni sent messages of sympathy to their opposite numbers in the French government. Next day, noting this simple gesture of human decency, the Communist newspaper L'Unitá surpassed even itself in snarling bad manners. "These messages," wrote L'Unitá, "offer an extraordinary example of Atlantic servility of the present government. They can be explained only by taking into account that Scelba and Piccioni, who are intimately connected with pimps and profiteers, feel sympathy for the exploiters of colonial peoples...
...Scelba's reply to this journalistic contumely was prompt and pertinent. "The inconceivable insult to the Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs in today's L'Unitá," he announced, "shows how far Italian Communism can go to act against the honor of its own government. This attack, which exceeds the limits allowed in political debate and which contains insults of unrepeatable vulgarity, has induced the Prime Minister to order that Communist newspapermen be no longer admitted to the offices of the Prime Minister or any other government ministry...