Word: longo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, ill with influenza, obviously out of favor with the new master of the Kremlin, Palmiro Togliatti, 65, was sitting out the campaign for Italy's general elections, coming late this month. Luigi Longo, wartime Red partisan organizer, postwar street fighter and a recent visitor to the Kremlin, has taken over as acting party chief. But Communist membership is down from 2,500,000 to 1,700,000; one-fourth of the party's Senators and Deputies have been dropped as unsuitable candidates for reelection; the Communists are having a hard time finding vote-winning issues...
...necessary. Events in Hungary had suggested a slight retreat; out went Stalinist Rakosi and in came Gero, also a Stalinist but less notoriously so. In Poland, the Poznan defense lawyers were allowed unheard-of freedom. Khrushchev boasted recently in Moscow (to Italy's junketing No. 2 Red, Luigi Longo) that his rein-loosening program was popularizing and perpetuating Soviet Communism in the satellites. In theory, it may have been a sound risk...
...Italian Communist delegation, led by Luigi Longo, No. 2 to Italian Communist Leader Togliatti, was warmly received, and Comrade Longo was reportedly much interested in Tito's "workers' management," which he described as "direct democracy." On the other hand, the French Communist Party, rigidly controlled by the Molotov-Suslov faction, it was said, was dragging its feet on invitations to send a delegation to confer with Tito...
Political Crime. Italian Communism marshaled its biggest guns in defense of their hero, led by Partisan Chief Luigi Longo, now a Deputy. But, faced with the evidence, the Communist defense had to acknowledge that the victims were neither spies nor Fascists, and that it had been a "tragic mistake." Retorted the public prosecutor: "It was a dry and cold-blooded common crime . . . infamous, indecent, cruel murder...
...Unità. and seemed hurt when L'Unità refused to publish it. Finally, he put it in his own Trieste Il Lavoratore. The reaction in the ranks of Italian Communists was sensational, but the reproof that followed was sensationally mild. Italy's No. 2 Red, Luigi Longo, scolded Vidali for having expressed "the wrong attitude, probably due to hurried and superficial evaluation." Longo probably dared go no further because 1) a good many Italian Communists were as horrified as Vidali at Khrushchev's cringing mea culpa to Tito, 2) Longo himself was apparently not clear whether...