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...inhabitants of the little town of Caravate on the Lombardy plain, Don Luigi Milani was no ordinary parish priest. Thirty-five years old, tall, extremely handsome, he was the greatest athlete in the whole countryside, the leading figure in welfare and charity work, a convincing speaker with enlightened views. He was popular even with Communists, whom he invited to his house to discuss politics and religion...
...recently the Bishop of Como ordered Don Luigi to leave Caravate. A matter of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, said the church authorities. The 800 citizens of Caravate stormed and raged. At a mass indignation meeting in the public square, rude things were said about church authorities in general and the Bishop of Como, a cleric of "considerable circumference," in particular...
...letter was dispatched to their old priest, Don Luigi, from the people of Caravate saying: "Because you have left us we are all becoming Protestants." When his reply came, it was disappointing. He told them not to be "foolish children." So the argument still raged in Caravate: ''How can we become Protestants if we are still Catholics...
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...
...started the riot? Preliminary investigations pointed to agents provocateurs in the crowd. Communists blamed "monarchists and Fascists." Rightists blamed Communists. Said white-haired Police Chief Luigi Ferrari: "God alone knows...