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Standing before the Chamber of Deputies last week, Premier Mario Scelba said: "I have the honor to present . . . the law for the European Defense Community." A left-wing voice cried out: "You call that an honor?" and the Communists and Nenni (proCommunist) Socialists set up a chorus of hoots and jeers at Scelba...
Later, before 50,000 dirt farmers gathered in convention in Rome, Scelba said: "The Communists, from their point of view, are right to oppose EDC, because every act which tends to make our democracy stronger only makes more improbable their dream of world domination . . . The Reds say EDC menaces peace. It is not true. They tried to convince the Italian people that the Atlantic pact would provoke war. But behold, five years have passed and . . . war is further away than ever. Why, even Russia has formally asked to join the Atlantic pact . . . We have learned a lot about the Communists...
Premier Mario Scelba's government got moving last week on two of the major areas where it had promised action...
...first step in his crackdown on Italian Communism (TIME, March 29), which includes cleaning the Reds out of moviemaking and other strongholds, Scelba announced that as of mid-April, Communist and fellow-traveling organizations will have to get out of government-owned facilities or face eviction proceedings. The Communists, for example, print their official newspaper, L'Unità, in a government-controlled printing plant. Pietro Nenni's Red-affiliated Socialists were the first to get specific eviction notes. They were told they had three months to vacate their Milan headquarters, a building where Mussolini founded his Fascist fighting...
...Cabinet authorized Scelba to begin the ratification process for the European Army treaty, and empowered him to risk a vote of confidence when the issue-after a long, noisy and tortuous parliamentary process-comes up for a showdown in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. The EDC bill will not get out of committee until May or later, and when it does the Communists and their allies will launch a massive attack. Optimistic timetable for ratification: six months...