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Just before leaving for a good-will visit to the U.S., Italy's careful little Premier, Mario Scelba, faced trouble inside his precarious four-party coalition government. Two small groups in the coalition were quarreling, and the Christian Democrats' own ambitious and powerful secretary-general, Amintore Fanfani, was demanding an immediate showdown (TIME, March...
...Mario Scelba is slow to anger and never reaches heights of flaming oratory. He is the kind of man who writes out all his political pronouncements, follows his script closely and cannot be heckled into indiscretions. Last week, aware of his troubles, modest Mario Scelba, in a speech to 71 delegates of the Demo-Christian National Council, came as close as he ever does to boasting: "We have solved the Trieste problem and approved the Paris accords. We have laid the foundation for closer collaboration with Yugoslavia and have ended the sad chapter of struggle with Great Britain. With...
Secretary-General Fanfani could see that these words carried weight with the Demo-Christian elders, and that in a showdown Fanfani, and not Scelba, would be beaten. So Fanfani executed a hasty but fairly graceful retreat. When the delegates drafted and passed a warm resolution praising Scelba and his coalition, Fanfani chimed in with a show of enthusiasm...
Arms Pool for Europe. Mendès visited the sights of Rome with Premier Scelba and donned morning coat and topper to call on Pope Pius XII. He was the first French Premier ever to visit the Pope. It was also the first audience granted by the ailing Pontiff since late November. They talked for 20 minutes, and Mendès presented the Pope with a collection of 17th century sermons. Emerging from the Vatican, Mendès said of its splendors: "Now I understand what grandeur really is." The Italians were delighted...
Mendès' quizzical features, the details of his every meal, blazed from the Rome front pages; his pretty wife was acclaimed as "gentilissima." But when Mendès sat down to talk over his European Arms Pool with Premier Scelba, he was less successful. His plan, he said, would make European arms production cheaper and more efficient by enabling each member of WEU to concentrate on those items it is best fitted to produce (The Netherlands, electronics; Britain, jet engines; Germany, explosives; France, fuselages). The Italians were polite but noncommittal...