Word: longo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week L'Unīta, the party journal, published a simple, two-column box announcing that Togliatti had been confirmed as secretary general, and Comrade Luigi Longo as deputy secretary general. At the bottom of the list, after describing all other members of the national politburo, came this line: "Comrade Pietro...
...many happy years, Italy's No. 2 Communist, Luigi Longo, could sing with Poet Burns: "My love is like a red, red rose." His idyll began back in the 1920s when Communist Longo, then as now a better organizer than speechmaker, got trapped in dialectic during an argument at a trade-union meeting. With a naturally glib tongue sharpened in many a workers' demonstration, a young woman Communist and ex-sewing-machine girl named Teresa Noce rushed into the breach and with crushing Marxist logic silenced Longo's opposition. Gratitude and love mingled in Longo...
Helping Hand. Two years ago, however, Longo took up with a chic party member who was not so easily palmed off-young, slender Bruna Conti. Soon after she bore him a child, Bruna began insisting that Longo marry her. Last fall the nearby Communist-dominated little Republic of San Marino, which is always ready to give Italy's Reds a helping hand, announced that it had granted Luigi Longo a divorce...
...news, the once faithful Communist Teresa took a step unprecedented in scorned fury-she wrote a letter to the editor of the capitalist Corriere delta Sera: "Please print my categorical denial that the Honorable Longo has got a divorce from me." Throwing caution to the winds, the outraged Teresa went on to point out that divorce is forbidden by Italian Communist doctrine: "Communists, in fact, cannot have two policies, one public and the other personal." This amounted to a charge of deviationism, not only against Longo, but against Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti himself (who divorced his wife in Russia...
Huge Following. Haled to Communist headquarters in the Street of the Dark Shops to explain her charges, Teresa failed to show up. Ever since then, she has scrupulously avoided all Communist get-togethers. But Teresa Longo at 53 is no clinging vine destined to droop forlornly for lack of attention. No one can tell her plans for the future, but she has a big following of her own among Italy's Communist women, most of whom, like herself, are against divorce. As one observer put it last week: "It would have been far better for Longo to have Teresa...