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...Segni Forms Cabinet...
ROME--Antonio Segni, veteran Christian Democrat middle-roader, formed a one-party minority government Sunday that leaned a little to the right...
...lean, 68-year-old law professor's Christian Democrats are 25 votes short of a majority in the Chamber of Deputies. They have 274 seats. Even with the support promised by the Liberals, with 17 seats, Segni would be eight votes shy. The Monarchists are split in two parties with a total of 25 votes...
...offense to democratic usage and the good sense of the Sardinian people," huffed Sardinia's most eminent citizen, ex-Premier Antonio Segni. But on election day more than 60,000 Sardinians, 9% of the electorate, voted for Lauro's Monarchists, giving them six crucial seats on Sardinia's regional council. With Lauro's aid, the Christian Democrats would have a slim but workable majority in the council, a pattern which Lauro himself suggests can be followed nationally. "The new fact," said Milan's Corriere della Sera, "is Achille Lauro...
...fact that there was any crisis at all was partly Gronchi's doing. Premier Antonio Segni's government fell because of a split in the four-party coalition that has helped keep Christian Democratic Prime Ministers in office for the past four years. But Segni's position had been gravely weakened before he fell by Gronchi's rage when Segni's Foreign Minister refused to forward to President Eisenhower a private letter in which President Gronchi criticized U.S. policy in the Middle East. And it was clearly at Gronchi's behest that Segni...