Word: scelba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...control of the Christian Democratic Party, Fanfani had performed a useful service by remolding the party machinery in his own efficient image: late to bed, early to rise, always on the job. Trouble was that by ruthless pursuit of his own ambitions, Fanfani had made enemies. Ex-Premier Mario Scelba, whose government Fanfani tumbled by backstage maneuvering in 1955, was not inclined to forgive or forget. Formidable Giuseppe Pella, still probably the most popular Demo-Christian politician in Italy, had two grievances: Fanfani helped overturn Pella's government in 1954, dropped Pella as Foreign Minister last July...
...mysterious drowning of a Roman carpenter's daughter has been postwar Italy's biggest political scandal. The discovery of the half-clad body of 21-year-old Wilma Montesi on a beach near Rome in April 1953 very nearly brought down the government of then Premier Mario Scelba. Because of it, the chief of Italy's national police, the chief of the Roman police force and Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni resigned. When the Communist daily L'Unita solemnly declared that the Montesi case was a symbol of the moral bankruptcy of "the entire clerico-capitalist regime...
...part of their woes the Reds can thank an increasingly tough campaign by the Italian government to curb their power. Starting less than three years ago under then-Premier Mario Scelba, the government forced Communists out of some newspaper plants illegally occupied during the last days of World War II, then ordered state-owned businesses to stop advertising in Red papers. When private businessmen also pulled out, advertising virtually vanished from the Communist press. Furthermore, where the Reds once got all the newsprint they wanted from Iron Curtain nations on unlimited credit terms, the Italian government refused import permits except...
Four years ago, Finance Minister Ezio Vanoni created a stir by requiring all Italians to make out annual tax returns. Roberto Tremelloni, Finance Minister in the Scelba government, went even further. Tremelloni introduced a bill which would for the first time 1) require an oath in making out. returns, and 2) exact penalties for defrauding the government. His bill got nowhere. Not only was it resisted by Neo-Fascists and Monarchists, but it was repellent to the big-money backers of the ruling Christian Democrats. The bill languished in committee until one day last month, when Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni...
...Premiers Mario Scelba and Giuseppe Pella absented themselves along with almost a third of their Christian Democrat followers. Of the 68 Monarchists and Neo-Fascists, only 13 were in the Chamber last week when the Tremelloni bill finally passed, 315 to 47. Well over 200 of the favorable votes were cast by the Communists and Nenni Socialists...