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Unlike France, Italy last week ratified the Paris accords with a minimum of argument and a maximum of assent. Resisting every parliamentary maneuver to block and delay by Western Europe's biggest Communist Party, Liberals, Monarchists, neoFascists, Republicans and right-wing Socialists joined with Premier Mario Scelba's Christian Democrats to vote 335 to 215 for German rearmament in NATO...
...vote was a triumph for Premier Mario Scelba, who at long last is beginning to turn the screws on Italy's home grown Reds. "Italy's foreign policy of collaboration with the West," beamed the Premier as he left the Chamber, "is no longer a party policy but has become a national policy." It was the first time that the Monarchists and neo-Fascists have joined the government on a major issue, isolating the Communists and the left-wing Socialists...
...Beginning. Even Scelba's vaunted drive against the Reds has stumbled, staggered and almost stopped, though the climate for action against the Communists has never been better. Last week, goaded by its critics, the Scelba government tried to make a new beginning. Tacitly admitting his inability to force any new law through against Communist obstructionism, Scelba announced a new attack on the party's purse by the only course left to him-stricter enforcement of existing laws. Principal targets are Communist-run enterprises such as building societies, which are run as businesses for profit, to feed the party...
...housing program was proposed in April, sent to committee, and has not been heard of since. Neither has the program for new school buildings. Communists or fellow travelers, who hold more than a third of the seats in Parliament, sabotage and delay. Quarreling allies and vigorous enemies are not Scelba's only handicaps. There is also the problem of his own Christian Democratic Party...
...Though Scelba is Premier, the head of the party (and its real organizational strongman) is Amintore Fanfani. Fanfani, who wants to be Premier again himself some day, has supported the Scelba government publicly. But he has been careful not to identify himself with it, and is not in the Cabinet. He has often been privately critical. Fanfani could bring down the government now. But he would rather wait until he judges the moment ripe, and his own political machine ready, for a new election. Fanfani's temporizing contributes to immobilismo...