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...Russia): "It is easy to get 50,000; I have only to summon the Army and security police. When you increased the number to 100,000, I announced that Mr. Mikolajczyk [chief opposition leader] would speak. After you mentioned 150,000, I told the people that General Anders [antiCommunist expatriate] would address them. However, when you finally instructed me to get 200,000, I announced that at the meeting all members of the Government would be publicly hanged...
...climax of this sweetness-&-light campaign conies when "Father Palmiro" and his Communist Curates vote for the reaffirmation of the Lateran Pact (TIME, April 7), thus depriving the Christian Democrats of their most effective antiCommunist weapon-the charge that the Communists fight Christianity. Says a Communist observer: "You might say that Togliatti decided for the moment to dispense with the crude sickle in favor of the more delicate rapier. And instead of the hammer, we find Terracini's parliamentary gavel more effective...
There were other signs of unrest in Spain. The New York Herald Tribune's William Attwood got into the antiCommunist, anti-Franco northern Basque provinces last week, found "a facade of order and prosperity that would deceive a casual tourist, a poverty-stricken land where a man who dares to say what he thinks is thrown into jail-or worse...
...Communists. Embarrassed by Russia's insistence that Italy must give up Trieste, Togliatti had received the indignant resignations of 8,000 Roman Communists in a single day. The Socialists had appointed Sandro Pertini to conduct their negotiations with the Reds, and since Pertini was known as a rabid antiCommunist, most Western observers complacently assumed that close Socialist-Communist collaboration was a dead duck...
...bias which ... is bound to color his reports, and there is no correspondent in Poland today who hasn't in his heart aligned himself with either the Communist-dominated Government or ... Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant party." Bigart had, for one; he was now firmly antiCommunist. He added: "There is no middle ground, no impartial witness...