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Mario Scelba
Mario Scelba (5 September 1901 – 29 October 1991) was an Italian Christian Democratic politician who served as the 33rd Prime Minister of Italy from February 1954 to July 1955. He was also President of the European Parliament from 1969 to 1971.
Early career.
Scelba was born in Caltagirone, Sicily, the son of a poor sharecropper on land owned by the priest Don Luigi Sturzo, one of the founders of the Italian People's Party ("Partito Popolare Italiano", PPI). He studied
Gaia (1976), "Mafioso. A history of the Mafia from its origins to the present day", London: Secker & Warburg
External links.
- In ricordo di Mario Scelba, discorso pronunciato dal Presidente della Camera dei Deputati on. Pier Ferdinando Casini] a conclusione della celebrazione del decennale dalla morte e del centenario dalla nascita di Mario Scelba (Caltagirone, 29 ottobre 2001)
- L’anticomunista di ferro
- Gli eccidi operai e contadini del dopoguerra 1947–1954 di Gianni Viola