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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...
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...
...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...