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...party had come a long way-mostly downgrade-since the sixth congress three years ago. It had been crushed in the 1948 national elections. Its dominance over Italy's trade unions had been seriously challenged by the rise of the anti-Communist CISL (Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Liberi); its recent attempts at political strikes had fizzled miserably; its strong-arm squads had been routed and its hidden arsenals uncovered by Interior Minister Mario Scelba's security forces. Internal defection, led by Valdo Magnani and Aldo Cucchi (TIME, Feb. 12), had rocked it to its heels. What the party needed...
Montemezzi: L'Amore del Tre Re (Sesto Bruscantini, bass; Renato Ca-pecchi, baritone; Amedeo Berdini, tenor; Clara Petrella, soprano; Aldo Bertocci, tenor; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Arturo Basile conducting; Cetra-Soria, 4 sides LP). A powerful and passionate performance of Montemezzi's opera about a blind king who throttles his adulterous daughter-in-law. Chiefly remarkable for the beautiful bass singing of the king (Bruscantini). Recording: good...
...House in 1918. Gianni Schicchi, which still survives at the Met, is a bright and appealing piece of foolishness. In this recording, it is a roaring fine vehicle for first-rate Baritone Giuseppe (Falstaff) Taddei. Il Tabarro (The Cloak) is Puccini at his most melodramatic blood & thundering. These Radio Italiana performances give both operas their full due; so does the recording...
...past six years, Italian Communism's most trusty and telling weapon has been the CGIL (Confederazione Generate Italiana del Lavoro). From 1944 to 1948 it operated almost as a monopolistic, aggressive state within the state, claiming 6,500,000 members and another 5,000,000 affiliates, using the general strike as a political bludgeon against the government. CGIL's boss was Communist Bigwig Giuseppe di Vittorio, who ran the show with a strong arm and a jealous eye for any non-Communist challenge to his power...
Last week, Comrade di Vittorio and his CGIL faced a rising rival, the CISL-Confederazione Italiana Sindacate Lavoratori (Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions). CISL (pronounced chisel) started growing two years ago as a Christian Democrat splinter of the Communist union, has grown steadily and courageously, chiseled deeply into Red trade union strength. Last month the Communists called a waterfront strike against U.S. arms shipments. CISL unionists, under police guard, broke it by unloading American weapons at Naples...