Word: longo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
Expert Hartkorn's story: The charge against Longo was that he had had his registration changed from Republican to Democratic, in the hope of getting a job from Democratic Governor Edison. Expert Hartkorn had been hired by the prosecutor-a Hague stooge-to provide proof. But diligent examination showed that, although the record had been tampered with, such a change had never been made. Expert Hartkorn duly reported these findings to the prosecution. Not unnaturally, he was never called as a witness...
Last week Longo's attorney broke the sensational story in court. The prosecution stammered "Foul." The judge adjourned court hastily and took a week's vacation, beginning at once. But John Longo, denied bail, still languished in jail...