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Premier Mario Scelba's regime did keep Investigating Magistrate Raffaele Sepe at work on the case. Last week, after secretly questioning some 500 witnesses, Sepe turned over the last of 16,000 pages of evidence to the government prosecutor. Nothing happened. After three days' waiting, Magistrate Sepe took an unusual step to prod higher authorities to action: he pointed his finger at four prominent figures by the simple expedient of canceling their passports. The four: Pianist Piero Piccioni, Ugo Montagna, ex-Police Chief Saverio Polito and, to the surprise of almost everyone, Prince Maurice of Hesse, 28-year...
Submerged in Mud. At this point, Scelba finally accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Piccioni. "I feel that my place must be beside my son," he said. As new Foreign Minister, Scelba upgraded his Education Minister, Gaetano Martino. No longer did it seem possible to stifle the Montesi case with a conspiracy of silence...
...last day he arose and, as usual, looked out the window toward a hillside crucifix, then murmured: "I can't see the crucifix." A few hours later he talked with Premier Scelba in Rome. Hunched over the telephone, he said passionately: "EDC must be launched! . . . Europe and the fatherland must be saved." He turned from the telephone in tears. A few hours later he had another heart attack and then another. A priest was summoned, and Alcide de Gasperi, a devout man all his life, received the last sacrament. His daughter began to read the prayer for the dying...
...back De Gasperi for President of Italy, a job with more prestige than power, which will probably fall vacant when 81-year-old Luigi Einaudi finishes his seven-year term next May. Fanfani also reportedly gave assurances of continued backing to the government of fellow Demo-Christian Mario Scelba, and promised that for the next year, at least, he would not seek public office. He arranged for the Vatican's vital nihil obstat, delivered by a spokesman: "The Vatican welcomes this induction of new energy in the Christian Democratic Party, without of course disparaging for one moment the paramount...
...meeting of the National Council, Fanfani called De Gasperi "our teacher and guide," Scelba "my dear friend," and proposed that the council elect to membership his two chief opponents, Giuseppe Pella of the Demo-Christian right wing, and Giovanni Gronchi of the left, who had been passed over at Naples. In his short acceptance speech, Fanfani used the word friend 50 times. His friendliness proved contagious: the changeover was completely harmonious...