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...seriously challenged by the rise of the anti-Communist CISL (Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Liberi); its recent attempts at political strikes had fizzled miserably; its strong-arm squads had been routed and its hidden arsenals uncovered by Interior Minister Mario Scelba's security forces. Internal defection, led by Valdo Magnani and Aldo Cucchi (TIME, Feb. 12), had rocked it to its heels. What the party needed at an obviously low ebb was a shot of optimism. The No. I comrade, Palmiro Togliatti, just back from a cure in Moscow, gave it to them...
...have been getting more and better tips than they ever got before. They are also finding arms dumped in open fields by comrades who want to get rid of them. The trend, the police guess, may just possibly stem from the party disaffection led by anti-Stalin Deviationists Valdo Magnani and Aldo Cucchi (TIME, Feb. 12). Mused a police officer: "Quite a few Communists seem to be having crises of conscience...
Made by famed Producer-Director Roberto (Ingrid Bergman) Rossellini with his then favorite actress, Anna Magnani, it tells the story of a deranged Italian peasant girl who is seduced by a bearded wayfarer under the impression that she is seeing a vision of St. Joseph. Her resulting pregnancy, she is convinced, is of divine origin. For this pathetic delusion she is cruelly badgered by a crowd of villagers, who stage a jeering procession in mockery of this deluded "virgin...
...Deputies, by an overwhelming vote, rejected the Deputies' resignation. The Red vilification apparatus clawed at the heretics: They were "traitors . . . automatically expelled." They were trying to smear "the patriotic and peace-defending line of the Communist Party in order to slander the Soviet Union." Party goons threatened Magnani and Cucchi on a train from Rome. Anti-Communist groups gleefully plastered up slogans: "Magnani and Cucchi Chose Italy...
...sounded more than a bit like whistling in an unplumbed dark. Magnani and Cucchi were symptoms of party dissension, which is still largely subsurface. They were a crack that could become a chasm, with effects of unforeseeable consequence. The two heretics, it was said, would next issue a manifesto for an independent Italian Communist Party. Already, in the heart of the country's Red Belt, they had adherents. On Reggio Emilia's grey stone walks were chalked: "Long live Valdo and Aldo...