FANFANI S EFFORT TO FORM A NEW ITALIAN CABINET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A000200030030-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 24, 2002
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: January 14, 1954
• Content Type: BRIEF

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NSC BRIEFING 14 January 1954
FANFANI'S EFFORT TO FORM A
NEW ITALIAN CABINET
1. On 12 January Italian President Einaudi
asked the Christian Democratic leader
Amintore Fanfani to form a new government.
II. Fanfani since 1951 has been leader of
the party's reform-minded left wing.
A. Born in 1908 in central Italy, he
is a former professor of economic
history, in politics since the wu
B. Served as Labor Minister and Agri
ture Minister under De Gasperi,
Interior Minister under Pella.
1. Favored cheap housing projects,
land reform, international
cooperation especially in
;00000,
labor and agriculture.
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C. Italian delegate i4~
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bodies such as the IntorA ttonal
Labor Organization, the Food and
Agriculture Organization,. and the
proposed "Green Pool" or.Western
European' agriculture cooperative
similar to the Coal-Steel Community
1. In a recent conversation with
Ambassador Luce, he impressed
her as favorable to EDC but
apprehensive of pushing it at
this,time .
D. Popular, an excellent speaker, and
politically deft, he is generally
considered a less ardent supporter
of American-sponsored policies
than De Gasper i .
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ban aFarts in the June
elections (i.e., the Liberals, Repub-
licans, and Democratic Socialists).
The disparate nature of these parties
will make it difficult to form and gain
ptospectivo policies will present
the chief immediate obstacle.
A. Controversy over latfani`'a cabinet
nominees rather than over his
tary approval for a cabinet.
uld he succeed in forming a
government, disagreements over
Tcy are likely to make its
l i t#h and ; brief .
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tiate any major legislate
flicting nature of the
.party objectives.
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