Word: lombardo
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Both hands uplifted, Lombardo countered: "No, my friend'. . . America in 1947 exported only 8% of her production. Only a third of her exports came...
Next day, bespectacled, precise Ivan Matteo Lombardo bravely tried to remind his fellow Socialists that the lion, no matter how softly he purrs, is a carnivorous animal. "We must look to the Marshall Plan," he began quietly, "from an Italian point of view, not from that of the Cominform." His next words were drowned by cries of, "You are the Voice of-America...
...Lombardo persisted. "The Marshall Plan is an encouragement of production. . . ." The lion-dominated crowd chanted its dissent : "Your speech is written with Dunn's fountain pen."* Cried one delegate: "Traitor! The Marshall Plan is an American attempt to capture markets and throw European workers into unemployment...
...union. Back in Chile in 1936, after he had been wounded fighting the Franco forces at Madrid, he organized the Chilean Workers Federation (C.T.Ch.), which he soon made one of the most powerful in Latin America. At a labor conference in Mexico he became a friend of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, and returned to Chile with such a Mexican accent and so many scrapes, that Chileans still call him El Mexicano...
...years ago, Chile's Communists cracked the "popular front" and walked out of Ibáñez' C.T.Ch. to found a federation of their own. Ibáñez fought back, breaking with Lombardo and C.T.A.L., but he would probably have been licked if Chilean President Gabriel González Videla had not jettisoned the Communists and become his friend. Last week's conference was the payoff. C.I.T.'s new president knows better than to tie up with the Communists again. Says he: "The Commies are going to use every dirty trick...