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Only seven months ago Italy's Communists, starchy with the stiffest kind of bourgeois morality, piously raised their voices in horror at the revelations of "bourgeois decadence" in the Wilma Montesi case. In the hullaballoo over drugs and sex among high-placed Romans, both Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni and the national police chief quit their posts, and there was much talk of cover-up and hush-up. But the talk was not followed by proof.* Meanwhile, Magazine Publisher Edgardo Sogno began finding political and personal scandals about the Communists themselves (TIME, Nov. 1). And last week the Communists were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Rival Scandal | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Privileged & Perverse. About the same time last spring that the Montesi case hit the headlines, another girl named Adelaide Montorzi died, obscurely, after babbling deliriously, in a Rome hospital. The police thought that Adelaide might have been kicked and beaten by a man, probably a pimp. While following up their leads, the police found that Adelaide Montorzi had frequented several call houses, one of them a decently furnished apartment in a respectable district of Rome. Watching two of these places, the cops identified two furtive but highly important visitors: Communist Giuseppe Sotgiu, president of the Rome provincial council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Rival Scandal | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...with the highest honors. A onetime Socialist newspaperman and then a law professor, he emerged as a Communist lawyer after Mussolini's downfall, much honored for his anti-Fascist record. It was he who acted as defense counsel for the journalist who first published the allegation that Wilma Montesi had been murdered. At that time Giuseppe Sotgiu indignantly declaimed: "This Montesi case stigmatizes a whole putrid and corrupted society, a privileged class which is perverse and needs replacing by a healthy workers' society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Rival Scandal | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...piquant item dealt with sex among Communist bigwigs-particularly buxom Nilde Jotti, who is currently Togliatti's mistress, but had a long career in Red-style amore before that. The article made instructive reading at a time when the Communists, exploiting the Montesi scandal, have been rending the air with their own pretensions to morality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Man with the Facts | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...second time in six days, Scelba had to stand up, risk a confidence vote provoked chiefly by Communist charges that his regime had been obscuring corruption and shielding suspects in the strange death of Wilma Montesi (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.). "My conscience is completely at ease," Scelba told the Chamber. "The government has nothing to fear and nothing to hide . . . I wish the whole country would at last realize it." The Chamber stood behind him on the vote, 294 to 264, one of the solidest victories he has recorded in eight months as Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Solid Vote | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

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