Word: scelba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Backed by the Communist bloc, the Demo-Christians easily pushed through (410 votes to 34) a bill drafted by Interior Minister Mario Scelba. whose name is usually anathema to the Reds. In rendering Fascism illegal, the Scelba law does a serviceable job of defining it. It bans any movement that 1) "exalts, threatens or uses violence"; 2) "advocates the suppression of [Constitutional] freedoms"; 3) engages in "racial propaganda"; 4) "denigrates democracy." Penalties: for Fascist activity, three to ten years in jail; for the Fascist salute, three months...
...Tenants. The Roman Catholic bishops of Rimini and Montefeltro (San Marino is almost due east of Florence) called the casino a sink of iniquity. Italy's Demo-Christian government discovered that San Marino had become a haven for Italian tax dodgers and quick divorces. Tough Interior Minister Mario Scelba, who dislikes both Communists and gamblers, put border guards at all roads leading into San Marino, had them politely but slowly examine identification papers of incoming visitors. Said Scelba: "San Marino is an independent state and consequently can act as it likes in its own territory. However, San Marino only...
...dominance over Italy's trade unions had been seriously challenged by the rise of the anti-Communist CISL (Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Liberi); its recent attempts at political strikes had fizzled miserably; its strong-arm squads had been routed and its hidden arsenals uncovered by Interior Minister Mario Scelba's security forces. Internal defection, led by Valdo Magnani and Aldo Cucchi (TIME, Feb. 12), had rocked it to its heels. What the party needed at an obviously low ebb was a shot of optimism. The No. I comrade, Palmiro Togliatti, just back from a cure in Moscow, gave...
...Some of Scelba's political colleagues, who accuse him of strong-arm methods, were not reassured by his non-Fascist pledge. Back in Rome after his Emilian foray, Scelba faced Giuseppe Saragat, mild, middle-of-the-road Socialist leader, and two of his followers who hold posts in the cabinet. Saragat accused Scelba of trying to give "a sop to Fascism." Scelba took three days to soothe Saragat. Then Randolfo Pacciardi, Italy's able Defense Minister, made difficulties: he wanted Italy's regular armed forces strengthened before any volunteer forces were launched. Scelba brought him around...
Finally, after a stormy cabinet session, Scelba triumphed; his plan was okayed. The new civil defense corps, with units in each Italian community, would (by official definition) "protect the population in times of calamity." In order to avoid the parliamentary squabble that would inevitably accompany the establishing of a new agency, the government simply put the new force under an existing agency-appropriately enough, Italy's Directorate of Fire Fighting...