Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swarthy, black-haired law student of 25, Antonio Pallante lived in Catania in Sicily, an ancient hotbed of violence. Communism, he decided, was the enemy of Italy, and Togliatti was the head and heart of Italian Communism. "I could not bear the thought that he, an Italian, attended meetings of the Cominform," explained Pallante later. Being obsessed, he did not realize that Communism would exploit the martyrdom of Togliatti...
...Considerable & Crushing." De Gasperi sensed the gathering storm. Since the crushing defeat in the April 18 elections. Italy's Communists had been restively quiet. The row between Yugoslavia's Tito and the Cominform had shaken the Italian Communist Party to the roots...
...reselling the Socialist Party. He seems to have no ideas of how to start, and the left-wingers complicated his task last week by electing Nenni as the leader of the party group in the Italian Assembly...
After 56 years the Italian Socialist Party had returned to its birthplace, Genoa's 16th Century Palazzo Ducale. Its drafty corridors bore the scent of political decay. Had Italian Socialism, corrupted by its alliance with the Communists, come home to die? Its leaders said not-but their expostulations carried little conviction, even to one another. Last week, the evidence of death was strong enough to warrant interment...
Basso, whose spiritual home is Communism, pointed with approval to Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe and said the majority of the Italian Socialist leaders were engaged in "a hybrid, inconsequential, incongruous attempt to preserve or gain personal positions...