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...Investigation of Communist-operated trading companies which have been doing business with Iron Curtain countries and paying a fat rake-off (estimated by Scelba at $45 to $50 million a year) to the Italian Communist treasury. Presumably the investigation will be followed by measures to stop, if not the trade, at least the rake-offs, thus depriving Palmiro Togliatti's comrades of a fat revenue source. ¶ Government seizure of property formerly owned by Mussolini's Fascists and seized by the Communists after the Allied liberation. Up to now, it has been allowed to stay in Red hands...
After Patient Waiting. The Scelba Cabinet's ambitious plan was greeted with hosannas by the non-Communist press. Particularly notable was the fact that the two minor parties of Christian Democrat Scelba's coalition, including Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats, firmly joined in approving it. Said Rome's // Tempo: "For the first time, after many years of patient waiting, Italy has a government willing to go from the defensive to the offensive in this fight against subversion...
...facing Scelba & Co. was now to turn resolve into reality. It will mean a struggle, and Italy's powerful Communists, it is certain, will see to it that the struggle is a rough and dangerous...
Aware that the Communists can never be really checked until democratic government fits itself to fulfill Italy's pressing economic and social needs, busy Mario Scelba also took steps last week to do some cleaning up within his government. His Cabinet proposed to trim down Italy's vast and oppressive bureaucracy...
...head the commission, Premier Scelba picked Italy's most articulate foe of statism: Don Luigi Sturzo, the aged and respected Senator-priest who founded the Christian Democratic Party, launched Scelba in politics and last month gave a stirring lecture (TIME, March 8) on the menace of too much government...