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...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...
...Harriman (see cut). When the Italian government spotted the cartoon it began a criminal action against the editor, since under Italian law insults to the Pope are punishable by the government. But it could not get its case into court. Reason: the New Ways' editor is Luigi Longo, hard-bitten leader of Italy's Communist partisans during the war, and now No. 2 man in the country's Communist Party; as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, he claimed parliamentary immunity. For five years the Chamber muffled every move to bring Longo to trial. Last week...
People's Day. Politically, Togliatti was quite himself. In his absence, tough, spiteful Luigi Longo had run the Italian Communist Party without any of Togliatti's suave, serge-suited craftiness. Loudly, Longo had threatened insurrection, had ordered unpopular (and unsuccessful) nationwide strikes. At a closed meeting of the party's Central Committee, Togliatti last week listened to Longo defend his policy, then flatly contradicted him. Said Togliatti: "We cannot pin our hopes on a large insurrectional movement . . . Our objective is still gaining a majority by preserving all our old alliances and making new ones. Let us beware...
Outside, Rome's air was rife with the aroma of decaying garbage and dead fish. Luigi Longo decided that the party could dispense with his services for a few weeks; he went to a hospital for a hernia operation...