Word: longo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along under their mingled banners: the green & white flag of Italy and the red hammer & sickle. "Viva Stalin. . . . Death to De Gasperi!" shouted the fur-capped Ligurian Brigade as it passed the garish white marble monument to the Unknown Soldier. Italian partisans cheered the words of their leader, Luigi Longo: "We do not consider ourselves museum pieces. ... In our hearts are intact the enthusiasm and ideals of conspiracy and of insurrection...
...close advisers of Joseph Stalin. Other top Communist brass who attended: Rumania's Ana Pauker; Yugoslavia's Vice Premier Edward Kardelj; Poland's Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka and Minister of Industry Hilary Mine; Jacques Duclos, secretary of the French Communist Party; Italy's Luigi Longo and Eugenio Reale, and delegates from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary...
Present to hear this challenge to Christian Democratic Premier De Gasperi was Luigi Longo, Italian Communism's unofficial minister of war. As 32 of his well-organized partisan brigades paraded, he remarked tersely that this was "a solemn warning to those who need...
...Luigi ("The Cock") Longo, who holds the party portfolio for war, is a more traditional type of Communist, a sullen man with deep sunken eyes and a tight, twisted mouth. He commanded Italy's Communist Partisans during World War II. Allied intelligence as well as Italian officials estimate his potential underground army (armed with weapons seized from the Germans) to be 150,000 strong, which is as large as the army allowed the Italian state under the peace treaty...
They reckoned without Luigi Longo, who represented the Communists in the discussions with Pertini. Moscow-trained Longo, an eloquent, sardonic veteran of the resistance movement, worked on resistance veteran Pertini in a series of secret meetings beginning in July. He got nowhere until mid-October, when Pertini began to waver. Longo's arguments included the charge that De Gasperi's government was dragging its feet on nationalization and land reform. Increasingly, Longo's case was helped by the West's blunders: Paris Conference treaty terms which Italians considered harsh and impossible to meet; failure of UNRRA...