Word: scelba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Senate agreed. By 125 to 40, it made Belgium the third (after The Netherlands and West Germany) of the six-member nations to ratify EDC. Luxembourg was certain to follow suit; Italy's new Scelba government was committed to ratification. All depended now on France, still tortuously putting off a decision...
...ringleader was the Marchese Ugo Montagna di San Bartolomeo, one of Rome society's brightest luminaries. The hunting lodge was run by the St. Hubert Club, whose membership list included the Pope's personal physician, high Vatican lay officials, and Piero Piccioni, jazz-pianist son of Scelba's Foreign Minister. Wilma was allegedly seen in a car like young Piccioni's black Alfa Romeo just before her death. His chief informants, said Muto, were two girls who had participated in the dope parties...
Before Italy's Chamber of Deputies, Premier Mario Scelba spoke solemnly of affairs of state-taxes and governmental reform, his government's support of EDC, the dangers of Communism and neo-Fascism. But the immediate threat to his new regime involved none of these, nor did it lie within the walls of the chamber. It came from a courtroom a few blocks away, where, as Scelba urged the Deputies to confirm his Cabinet, there unfolded an unsavory story of corruption in high places, of playgirls and midnight orgies and expensive decadence revolving around the figure of a marchese...
...Scelba won his vote of confidence as expected, 300 to 283, and for the first time in three months, Italy had a govern ment able to command a narrow majority in parliament. But it might not be for long. The case of Montagna had rocked Italy, and it could well bring down the government. For the case displayed, for all to see, the decadence that infects too much of Italy's moneyed classes, the irresponsibility of privilege that embitters even men of good will...
Such was the man who moved in Rome's most select circles, who addressed the national chief of police Tommaso Pavone with the intimate "tu." Many of those who originally doubted La Caglio's story changed their minds. The Communists promptly trumpeted the fact that Scelba and Montagna had both been witnesses at the wedding of Spataro's son two years ago, pointed out that Scelba himself had appointed Pavone chief of police...