SIGNOR FANFANI TAKES OVER

ANEW "further left" tendency in Italy's Christian Democrat Party—the country's largest and the main one in the Government—is again indicated this week by the election of Signor Amintore Fanfani, a Catholic economist of international reputation, to the key post of
party secretary.
The votes for him-59 out of 71—confirmed the trend already
indicated at the party's recent congress in Naples.
Signor Fanfani has long held that the party must take a more "progressive" line if the movement of Italian workers and intellectuals towards Socialism and Communism is to be stopped.
The support the party is now giving him—after a long period during which its Right Wing groups have been predominant—is likely to strengthen it in the country as a whole and improve its chances in any election.
As the country's youngest postwar Prime Minister, Signor Fanfani headed a short-lived Government in January.
He has promised that his group will give its support to the Scelba Government. But he has also said that they intend to provide it with "stimulus." He has already shown in several ministerial posts that he is a man of energy and drive, particularly in social questions such as land reform and housing problems.
He is a devoted Catholic, the father of a young family of six, and himself the second of a family of M.
As party secretary he succeeds the Christian Democrat elder-statesman, Signor De Gasperi, who has been made party president.
THE world's first underwater chapel has been installed by a priest and some "frogmen" friends off a rocky point named Falconera on the Catalan coast of Spain,
Deep sea divers in rubber swimming suits and special breathing apparatus placed a leaden statue of Our Lady weighing 100 lbs. in the underwater cavern.
Then, with nearly 50 people clinging to rocks and shrubs, the priest — Fr, Sayas — celebrated Mass on a jutting point overlooking the cave.
The phosphorescent base 01 the statue gleams in the shadowy depths and, says Fr. Sayas, the Virgin Morenata, as the statue is called, is enthroned both on mountain heights and deep down in the sea.
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