Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy and France this winter, ably explained the situation: "Comrades, you must learn to criticize more and be criticized more. ... I confess that we committed a sin of naivete." The sin was that the Italian Communist Party had Sacrificed effectiveness for size. It was the world's largest outside Russia, but some of its members were incompletely disciplined. Said Togliatti: "We failed to renew the whole Italian social structure. . . . This error . . . forced us on the defensive when we should have been on the offensive. . . . U.S. imperialism today is attempting formation of a Catholic bloc round the Mediterranean [Italy, France...
...Iron Curtain." The congress was not all repentance. Pavel Yudin of the Soviet Union delivered a morale-building backslap: "The Central Bolshevik Committee greets the Italian Communist Party, which . . . deserves to be ranked as the vanguard of democratic progress. . . ." For ten minutes the Italian delegates roared: "Viva Stalin!" France's Maurice Thorez led the rhetorical rowdedow. Cried he: "The imperialist reactionary forces of America . . . have instituted gangster methods of tear gas as the first step to war. . . ." (So eloquent was Thorez that even listeners who did not understand French had tears in their eyes.) Cried Bulgaria's Wladimir...
...congress, working through the days and half the nights, drew to a close, Italian workers brought votive offerings to the leaders on the dais-sacks of flour and rice for the congress' kitchen, an electric iron, a bicycle, a motorcycle, a Fiat car with headlights blazing. Most educational was a toy consisting of three tiny trucks on rails; one was labeled "reaction," and moved only backwards, the second was labeled "conservatism" and did not move at all, and the third was labeled "Socialism and United Peace Front" and zoomed merrily forward...
Last week another Italian vessel came to grief on the Goodwins: the 2,327-ton freighter Silvia Onorato, carrying 2,933 tons of plumbago (graphite). When a lifeboat came through mountainous seas to take off the crew, bushy-browed Captain Francesco Ruocco cried: "Ship go, me go. . . . This ship she mean everything to me and to my bella...
...realistic Italian films, Shoeshine and To Live in Peace, ranked high on most lists (Manhattan's critics put To Live in Peace in a special category as the year's best foreign-language film). Also listed by most reviewers: Odd Man Out (British), P'ox's Miracle on 34th Street and Boomerang! (also directed by Elia Kazan...