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Passing through Rome on a business safari to Africa, Democrat Adlai Stevenson taxied up to Premier Mario Scelba's villa to lunch with U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce and the Italian Premier, then flew for a three-week trip through Kenya, the Sudan, Uganda and Southern Rhodesia...
From Washington, the Premier went on a week-long whirl through New York, Philadelphia. Detroit and Chicago (Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino was going to San Francisco and Los Angeles). In Manhattan, where Scelba was welcomed by a cheering crowd, eager greeters pumped his hands and bussed his glowing pink cheeks. Some excavation workers called out: "Hi Mario! Paesan!" In two garment factories Italian-American seamstresses welcomed him with kisses, songs, dances and sentimental weeping. Amidst all the emotion Scelba shed a happy tear or two himself...
This week Premier Scelba is flying home with some personal mementoes (including three honorary doctorates and a silver statuette of the Empire State Building). As a friendly gesture to Italy, the U.S. made available ten tons of heavy water for the Italian atomic-reactor program. More economic aid seemed to be on the way: the International Bank in Washington worked up plans for a $200 million program of loans to Italy, beginning with some $60 million this year...
...part, Scelba repeatedly pledged Italy's friendship and gratitude to the U.S. and allegiance to the ideal of Western unity. Europe's alternatives, he said, are "integration or disintegration." Asked about Italy's attitude on the Far East issue, he replied, simply: "Italy is an ally of the U.S." Scelba promised to use democratic means in dealing effectively with Italy's internal Communist menace.* "The Communists are losing," he said. "We are certain that Italy will never become a satellite of Moscow. We are strong and growing stronger. Our great ambition is to win the battle...
Premier Mario Scelba, who was visiting the U.S., rejoiced when he got the news in Washington. Said Turin's Fiat-owned La Stampa: "For some time we have felt that something new was brewing in the union labor pattern in Italy. These election results give glamorous evidence of what that something...