Moro Presents His Cabinet

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31003, 8 March 1966, Page 21

Moro Presents His Cabinet

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) ROME, March 4. The Italian Prime Minister, Mr Aldo Moro, presented his new Cabinet to Parliament yesterday, after a long and confused crisis, promising orderly reforms at home and continued loyalty to the West.

Mr Moro went first before the Senate and then before the Chamber of Deputies to seek votes of confidence for his third Centre-Left coalition Cabinet of Christian Democrats, Socialists, Social Democrats and Republicans.

He formed the Cabinet on February 23 after a 33-day crisis in which rival factions in the coalition and in his own Christian Democratic Party struggled for powerAlthough resentments in the coalition were still strong, all members were expected to vote in favour of the new Government.

Mr Moro said Italy’s foreign policy “remains based on loyalty to the Atlantic Alliance, with the ensuing political and military obligations; and on European solidarity.” He repeated Italy’s “understanding” of the United States stand in Vietnam—a standard compromise formula between the pro-American Christian Democrats and the neutralists Socialists.

Italy would “continue to cultivate relations with East European countries” in the interests of peace, he said, advocating agreement on nuclear non-proliferation, extension of the nuclear test ban to underground explosions and any other measures toward “even partial disarmament.”

The proposed N.A.T.O. multilateral nuclear force should be studied on its merits when concrete suggestions were worked out.