ABSTRACT
Enzo Bettiza has written a novel, The Ghost of Trieste, which has since been translated, with success, in both West Germany and France; and even his first novel, composed shortly after his break with the Italian Communist Party in 1950, has now been reprinted. A few years ago Bettiza was one of the central figures in the editorial breakaway from Italy's leading daily newspaper, the Corriere della Sera. Bettiza himself, formed by his own experiences of Communists, must surely be one of the few active figures in Italian public opinion who do not deem it ''inevitable'' that the Communists come to power. Bettiza's election as a senator was associated with a number of other surprising returns that put a group of other ''Independents'' into Roman parliamentary life. Bettiza became a national figure; and perhaps it was what was called his ''Montenegran toughness'' that proved attractive. Small wonder that Enzo Bettiza's courage and independence is being called ''Montenegran''.
