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After Ten Years. In Rome, the signing produced no jubilation, but satisfaction. Premier Mario Scelba took his Cabinet to the great, glittering ceremonial hall of the Quirinale, where in times past Italy's Kings and Roman Popes held audience, and there formally announced to President Luigi Einaudi that the agreement had been signed. The President then presented an Italian flag to a bevy of city officials from Trieste...
Soundly trounced in the Senate, Italy's Communists and fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists turned to the Chamber of Deputies last week in their effort to choke the anti-Communist government of Mario Scelba with the tangled web of the Montesi case...
...second time in six days, Scelba had to stand up, risk a confidence vote provoked chiefly by Communist charges that his regime had been obscuring corruption and shielding suspects in the strange death of Wilma Montesi (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.). "My conscience is completely at ease," Scelba told the Chamber. "The government has nothing to fear and nothing to hide . . . I wish the whole country would at last realize it." The Chamber stood behind him on the vote, 294 to 264, one of the solidest victories he has recorded in eight months as Premier...
...belated arrests, though they seemed to the Communists to offer excellent material for proving that the government had been trying to cover up, actually produced a great psychological break for the Scelba regime. Persons of wealth and high position just are not touched in Italy by the law-or so many Italians had come to believe. But this time, neither the wealth of Ugo Montagna nor the high connections of Jazz Pianist Piero Piccioni had prevented indictment and arrest...
Clerical circles were alarmed when Premier Mario Scelba, also a Sicilian, picked Martino as Minister of Education seven months ago, because Martino is firmly opposed to clerical influence in public schools. But Martino concentrated on the noncontroversial job of refurbishing Italy's run-down public-school system, became one of the Scelba Cabinet's brightest stars. The first Italian Foreign Minister since the late Carlo Sforza who can carry on a conversation in English (passably), French (pretty well) or Spanish (fluently), Martino is a sturdy supporter of the Western Alliance, a "good European" who believes that the defeat...