Word: scelba
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...days, Scelba had seen Trieste settled and had pushed through the Paris accords. At home he had launched an attack, even though belated and limited, on the Communists' entrenched privileges. But he had gotten nowhere on Italy's much-needed social and economic reforms. Skillful on the teeter-totter of politics, he had merely avoided falling to the left or falling to the right by a careful balancing that kept him and his government upright but accomplished little else...
...Outside Help." Scelba's defeat was accomplished by his own party-chiefly by the right-wing "Concentration" of the Christian Democrats led by ex-Premier Giuseppe Pella. Pella (who would like to be Premier again) used an occasion provided by Party Secretary Amintore Fanfani (who would also like to be Premier). Fanfani laid down a "minimum" program of social welfare and public works, and demanded that Scelba get his coalition partners (Liberals, Saragat Socialists and Republicans) to accept it-or resign...
...wavering reed in the wind, but an attracting force for the country." In other words, the Concentration would accept Fanfani's program not because they approved it, but because they were sure the minor coalition parties would not. And this would mean the end of Scelba...
...Scelba's persistence almost fooled Pella & Co. The businessmen of the Liberal Party, whom Pella had counted on to balk at more land reform, accepted the program rather than bring on a crisis...
...when the tiny (five Deputies) Republican Party refused to support a new Scelba Cabinet, Pella's group demanded an emergency meeting of the Christian Democratic executive committee: the Scelba coalition had failed, they said...