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...called a Sunday meeting with Australia and New Zealand, discussed when and if a united front in Southeast Asia could be put together. He also sounded out Thailand and the Philippines. Monday morning he boarded his plane for Milan and a brief talk with Italy's Premier Scelba before flying on homeward...
While the delegations from communist Asia tried their hand at the big time in Geneva last week, Secretary Dulles headed south to a meeting with Italian Premier Mario Scelba. In their Milan conference, Dulles offered a feasible settlement to the question of Trieste...
Decisions for Dodgers. Mario Scelba's four-party coalition has dared to make decisions which no previous Italian government had thought it nice to face up to. It has stopped dodging around the corners of the Communist problem and has faced the issue squarely by spotlighting the Communist conspiracy as an alien program, directed and abetted from abroad. When the Ministry of Defense recently caught seven spies in Foggia. the government saw to it that the newspapers got the full story of how they were trained in a Russian spy school in Prague...
...Scelba's practical moves against the Communists entrenched in Italy's own economy have been equally telling. He decreed that some 300 state-paid employees now on loan to predominantly Communist unions of government workers must go back to work for the government itself. He threatened to remove state backing from the Red-ridden Italian film industry. When Scelba set out to reclaim some 1,300 pieces of confiscated Fascist property now occupied by the Communists, he effectively quashed Red objections by urging that the reclaimed properties be turned into badly needed schools. Last week the new Premier...
Jail for Dodgers. Economically, Premier Scelba has also given Italians new heart and new hope. Previous administrations had compiled vast reports on poverty and the unemployed, one 13 volumes thick, the other, twelve. Scelba put the authors of these works on the job, one as Minister of Finance, the other as Minister of Labor. Upcoming as a result is a whole program of new legislation: a self-liquidating housing scheme larger than anything previously planned in postwar Italy; a vigorous new set of tax laws, which for the first time will provide jail sentences for such blatant tax dodgers...