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...Tenants. The Roman Catholic bishops of Rimini and Montefeltro (San Marino is almost due east of Florence) called the casino a sink of iniquity. Italy's Demo-Christian government discovered that San Marino had become a haven for Italian tax dodgers and quick divorces. Tough Interior Minister Mario Scelba, who dislikes both Communists and gamblers, put border guards at all roads leading into San Marino, had them politely but slowly examine identification papers of incoming visitors. Said Scelba: "San Marino is an independent state and consequently can act as it likes in its own territory. However, San Marino only...
...dominance over Italy's trade unions had been seriously challenged by the rise of the anti-Communist CISL (Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Liberi); its recent attempts at political strikes had fizzled miserably; its strong-arm squads had been routed and its hidden arsenals uncovered by Interior Minister Mario Scelba's security forces. Internal defection, led by Valdo Magnani and Aldo Cucchi (TIME, Feb. 12), had rocked it to its heels. What the party needed at an obviously low ebb was a shot of optimism. The No. I comrade, Palmiro Togliatti, just back from a cure in Moscow, gave...
...Scelba wanted his new force to be nothing like the Fascist blackshirts (although a lot of Italians thought that was precisely what the doctor ordered). Said Scelba firmly: "We reject any idea of private [armed] organizations, of Fascist methods which, after 20 years of Fascist rule, left behind them an Italian Communist party which is the largest outside Russia. Anyone hoping for a . . . return to Fascist methods unwittingly hopes for an increase in Communist strength...
...Some of Scelba's political colleagues, who accuse him of strong-arm methods, were not reassured by his non-Fascist pledge. Back in Rome after his Emilian foray, Scelba faced Giuseppe Saragat, mild, middle-of-the-road Socialist leader, and two of his followers who hold posts in the cabinet. Saragat accused Scelba of trying to give "a sop to Fascism." Scelba took three days to soothe Saragat. Then Randolfo Pacciardi, Italy's able Defense Minister, made difficulties: he wanted Italy's regular armed forces strengthened before any volunteer forces were launched. Scelba brought him around...
Finally, after a stormy cabinet session, Scelba triumphed; his plan was okayed. The new civil defense corps, with units in each Italian community, would (by official definition) "protect the population in times of calamity." In order to avoid the parliamentary squabble that would inevitably accompany the establishing of a new agency, the government simply put the new force under an existing agency-appropriately enough, Italy's Directorate of Fire Fighting...