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...Ilyushin-18 plane brought his body home to Italy, amid national honors and prayers from the Pope, there was no doubt that Italian Communism had been weakened. His successor is tough, ex-Partisan Luigi Longo, 64, a fighter much less suave or plausible. Longo will probably be supplanted by younger "innovators," who in the past criticized Togliatti for being too subservient to Moscow, or too old-fashioned in his methods, but now have no very clearly defined policy beyond the fact that they want power...
Practical politicians often clashed with idealistic students in class. John R. Longo, a ward boss and city personnel director, taunted a student who deplored the spoils of politics: "When I was your age, I was carried off the speaker's platform, hit in the face with tomatoes, put in jail twice. I never wanted anything, either...
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...