Word: scelba
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...faltering regime of Premier Mario Scelba, who might gain a few months' more of power from a solid Christian-Democratic victory in his native Sicily...
Italian Premier Mario Scelba, worried by the prospect of U.S. forces withdrawing from a neutralized Austria, and thus leaving Italy less protected in the north, went out of his way to insist that for Italy there is no alternative to alliance with the West...
...been elected with the votes of the Communists and Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists, and the belated, reluctant support of Pre mier Mario Scelba's Christian Democrats, talked grandly about "the start of my mandate." His mandate, he hinted, was that Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists should be brought into the government...
Time and again, the Communists and their Socialist allies leaped to their feet to applaud and cheer. Premier Scelba sat dourly throughout. Afterwards, new President Gronchi received the Christian Democrats' party boss Amintore Fanfani and told him: "Let's hope my election will bring about a distensione in this country, which I, as chief of state, will do my best to promote." "Distensione" is Italian for easing of tension, and its advocates mean by it not only coexisting with Russia as a nation, but coexisting at home with sweet-talking fellow travelers in an old-style popular front...
...that day is not yet here. As required by custom, Premier Scelba journeyed to the Quirinal Palace to present his formal resignation to the new President. Scelba made it plain that he regarded his resignation as only "a personal expression of dutiful deference." Gronchi took the hint, and formally rejected the resignation. Scelba, who has shown more agility in surviving in office than activity in governing, thus won another reprieve which should last at least until the Sicilian elections in early June...