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...catching story splashed across the columns of the independent Il Tempo. The left-wing partisans who call themselves "Garibaldini" would wear new khaki uniforms with red neckerchiefs and visored caps at a grand parade on Feb. 18. The partisans also had arms and ammunition. Asked II Tempo: "What does Scelba think of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Very Negation | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Pudgy, bald Mario Scelba, Christian Democrat Minister of the Interior, had already thought about it a good deal. Italians would elect a Parliament on April 18. The last thing Scelba wanted was swaggering, uniformed, intimidating bands of Communists and left-wing Socialists marching the streets of Italy. Scelba wanted a law forbidding all private armed organizations. But his cabinet colleagues needed convincing. They feared a row. With a shrewd twinkle in his black eyes, Mario Scelba let scrappy Il Tempo take up the cudgels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Very Negation | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Interior Minister Mario Scelba (Christian Democrat) reported to his fellow assemblymen that, so far as the police could determine, the Sicilian shooting was nonpolitical. The valley in which it occurred was notoriously infested by bandits. Sicilian Communist Deputy Girolamo Licausi disagreed. He charged that the Maffia (Sicily's ancient, bloody secret society) had perpetrated the attack, in cahoots with monarchists and the rightist Uomo Qualunque Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Battle of the Inkpots | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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