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Pierre Mendès-France, the unresting, was headed for conferences with Italian Premier Scelba and Germany's Chancellor Adenauer. It was international fence-mending week. The Italians, who had a list of 72 minor questions to settle with the French (e.g., sea-traffic regulations between Corsica and Sardinia), had offered to journey as usual to Paris, but Mendès overnight made himself something of an Italian hero by going, instead, to Rome...
...behind him, Mendès booked reservations for himself and his pretty wife Lily at the Italian resort town of Positano, but then loaded up the schedule with an imposing list of appointments-an audience with Pope Pius XII, a meeting with Italy's Premier Mario Scelba and, on the way home, a conference with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at Baden-Baden...
Last week desperate Agriculture Minister Giuseppe Medici conferred with Premier Mario Scelba, ordered a new bill drafted, promised that the decimal point would be put in its proper place...
...arrests are another indication of renewed vigor by Premier Mario Scelba's administration. One hundred former Fascist buildings grabbed by the Communists at war's end have now been recovered. Last week the government approved a new supervisor for Bologna's huge, Communist-run cooperative, which had been operating hotels, restaurants and bars for the Reds' profit. The government also began an investigation of financial shenanigans in Turin's Red-run cooperative...
These promising beginnings by Scelba's administration were somewhat obscured by headlines announcing a plan that has in it more of promise than of beginning. Budget Minister Ezio Vanoni addressed himself to Italy's very real problem: 2,000,000 unemployed, another 2,000,000 underemployed, a housing shortage of 15 million rooms. His solution, which Scelba's cabinet discussed until 2 o'clock one night last week, is a ten-year plan to invest $8 billion worth of private and public capital in building productive enterprises. The intention was laudatory, but the details vague. Particularly...