Word: scelba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before leaving for a visit to his home town in Sicily last week, Italy's Premier Mario Scelba sent strict word ahead that no fuss was to be made over him. But the folks back home in Caltagirone, where Scelba's aged mother still lives, paid no attention. They greeted their fellow townsman outside the town with a triumphal fanfare of trumpets and drew him through the streets in a ceremonial coach, bright with caparisoned horses and liveried postillions. As the Premier stood on a balcony to address his old neighbors, a blaze of electric lights spelled...
Such a greeting was a welcome change for sober-sided Mario Scelba, whose public appearances in the recent past-and his face on newsreel screens-have more often been greeted by Communist-led hisses than by cheers. At the end of his first two months in office, Italy was beginning to feel different about the quiet but resolute onetime Interior Minister now its Prime Minister. The nation as a whole showed no likelihood as yet of echoing the enthusiasm of Caltagirone, but it was beginning to nod in pleased approval at the vigor and efficiency he has injected into...
Decisions for Dodgers. Mario Scelba's four-party coalition has dared to make decisions which no previous Italian government had thought it nice to face up to. It has stopped dodging around the corners of the Communist problem and has faced the issue squarely by spotlighting the Communist conspiracy as an alien program, directed and abetted from abroad. When the Ministry of Defense recently caught seven spies in Foggia. the government saw to it that the newspapers got the full story of how they were trained in a Russian spy school in Prague...
...amendment won a hairline majority, 281 to 276-apparently because some disgruntled coalition Deputies (Demo-Christians or others) tossed their voting balls into the corridor instead of the ballot boxes. When the discarded balls were found, Scelba's men got the vote invalidated. The amendment was not important enough to involve a vote of confidence. This week, cracking the whip before the Easter recess, Mario Scelba's leadership put the issue to a vote again, and squeaked through...
...member of Italy's Chamber of Deputies casually inquired of Premier Mario Scelba if he "intends to ask the U.S. Government for an act of clemency" in behalf of the pixilated U.S. poet, Ezra (Pisan Cantos) Pound, 68. After more than 30 years as an expatriate. Pound began spouting the Fascist line for Mussolini in World War II broadcasts from Rome and Milan. But it was hard to define just what might constitute "clemency" for Pound. In 1945 he escaped trial for treason because he was adjudged insane, and has since whiled away his declining years translating Confucius...