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Quivering Left. Three months ago wispy, white-maned Premier Antonio Segni won parliamentary approval for his plan to put all state-owned corporations under a single "Ministry of State Holdings." The right was worried: in the hands of a zealous left-winger, the new ministry could spearhead an all-out assault on Italian free enterprise...
Notable Example. When she resigned last week, Italy's Premier Segni cabled: "You have served with success the cause of Italian-American friendship." Wrote Rome's Il Tempo: "She has given a notable example of how well a woman can discharge a political post of grave responsibility." Added influential Il Populo: "News of her departure is met with regret everywhere in Italy...
From the moment De Nicola quit as Chief Justice in protest at the government's failure to carry out his court's decisions, Italy's Premier Antonio Segni knew full well that he was caught in a squeeze play: unless he purchased De Nicola's return to the court by promising government compliance with its rulings, Premier Segni's Cabinet would stand condemned in the public mind for defiance of constitutional processes. As gracefully as possible, the Premier resigned himself to paying the price-a new set of laws to replace the Fascist statutes thrown...
...trouble with these admirable decisions was that they carried no practical weight. With bland disregard for its constitutional obligations, the Segni government made no attempt to persuade Parliament to revamp the public security laws in accordance with the decisions of the court. The Ministry of Interior continued to exercise its old powers, brassily slapped an additional 100 Italians into confino in the two months after the practice had been declared unconstitutional...
This was serious. Revered Enrico de Nicola, a Senator for life, was the principal guarantor of the new court's integrity. Also, his resignation was bound to give rise to the cry that the Segni government was fostering "fascism." In dismay, Premier Segni hastily called his cabinet into session to throw together draft legislation revamping the public security code. Simultaneously, government emissaries, including Premier Segni himself, hurried down to Naples to try and persuade De Nicola to withdraw his resignation...