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Piero Piccioni, the son of Premier Mario Scelba's ex-Foreign Minister, was locked up in Rome's Queen of Heaven jail on charges of manslaughter. Ugo Montagna, the rich and influential bogus marquis, was clapped into a nearby cell. Rome's ex-Police Chief Saverio Polito was also arrested but allowed to stay at home, pending trial, because...
Italy's Communists had been diligent in fanning the Scelba regime's months of inactivity into a national scandal that was rapidly corroding confidence in the entire Italian governing class. Now the Reds were quick to seize on the government's action as an opportunity to bring down their hated enemy, tough Mario Scelba. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, with the support of Fellow-Traveling Socialist Pietro Nenni, threw one of his best firebrands against the government in Parliament. Before a packed Senate gallery, Red Senator Umberto Terracini recounted how Polito had served under National Police Chief Tommaso...
...doubt that there was an attempt to stifle justice," cried Terracini. "It is impossible to believe that the honorable Premier, at that time Minister of the Interior, was kept completely in the dark about what his immediate subalterns were doing." The Communists and Red Socialists demanded that the Scelba government resign...
...Beria Was Shot." After three days debate, Premier Scelba gave his answer. "A young man has been arrested on the charge of manslaughter, a crime for which he will have to answer personally," said he coolly. "We are charged with not having acted in this matter. But we do not yet know the details of the charges nor the motives for this crime." As for the Communist insistence that a minister must answer for all the acts of subordinates, even their crimes, Scelba was scathing: the U.S. Secretary of State was not believed culpable because one of his subordinates, Alger...
...Premier Scelba had made his point and the Red balloon was pricked. The Christian Democrats and their allies held solidly together; the Red move to oust Scelba on a vote of confidence was defeated...