Word: scelba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moments last week, it seemed as if doughty little Premier Mario Scelba, whose government had staggered along for 16 months, would stagger on a while longer. But the day of reckoning came at last...
...days, Scelba had seen Trieste settled and had pushed through the Paris accords. At home he had launched an attack, even though belated and limited, on the Communists' entrenched privileges. But he had gotten nowhere on Italy's much-needed social and economic reforms. Skillful on the teeter-totter of politics, he had merely avoided falling to the left or falling to the right by a careful balancing that kept him and his government upright but accomplished little else...
...weeks all Italy had been watching the campaign for a regional legislature which has no direct bearing on the national government. But Premier Mario Scelba's Christian Democrats had declared the Sicilian elections a test of their anti-Communist program, and the Communists had accepted the challenge...
...increasing Fanfani's stature, the elections diminished the influence of Scelba himself. Fanfani had scored another point. Scelba has always insisted that the Christian Democrats' coalition with the small center parties (Liberals, Republicans and Social Democrats) is the only possible government in the present Parliament, and that a stable government is essential even if its disagreements result in immobilismo (doing nothing). Fanfani has argued that these splinter parties hobble any effective Christian-Democratic program. In the Sicilian elections, the small parties lost almost half their votes, giving weight to Fanfani's thesis...
...Scelba was also under attack from his party's right wing, led by ex-Premier Pella. This week Scelba faces a vote of confidence, and the word was out that his days in office are numbered. The numbering is not new: it has gone on ever since he took office. As of last week, Mario Scelba's days in office numbered...