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Joseph Stalin's followers (and sometimes his enemies) hang on his every word as the pronouncement of a major oracle. Last summer Italy's fellow-traveling Socialist Pietro Nenni went to Moscow to pick up his Stalin Peace Prize (worth $25,000), and got one of the rare invitations to talk with the oracle himself. On his return, Nenni glowingly reported that Stalin wants only peace, and that if Russia is allowed to keep what she took after World War II, Stalin will be satisfied...
...their top candidate they picked an aging politician with a respected past, 83-year-old Francesco Nitti, a onetime pre-Fascist (1919-20) Premier of Italy. Their 80 city council candidates were neatly divided between 20 open Reds, 20 Nenni Socialists (who follow the Red line), and 40 fellow traveling "independents...
...Pietro Nenni, leader of those Italian Socialists who follow the Communist line sounded the main theme: condemnation of the U.N. He said that it was "an instrument of the power politics, provocativeness and aggressiveness of the US" and called the U.N. resolution naming China an aggressor in Korea "slanderous" and "scandalous...
...Business Like Show Business. From Nenni's remarks and other speeches, some Western observers got the idea that the Kremlin was getting ready to pull out of U.N., set up the World Peace Council as its rival. Ehrenburg, indeed, said-"The World Peace Council is the only organization which embraces true representatives of the people of the world...
From the Communists there was smug mirth. Their press mocked America's "atomaniacs." In Italy, pro-Soviet Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni (just back from a 15-day junket to another "peace" congress in Moscow) proudly pinpointed the site of the explosion in "eastern Siberia." In the town of Santeramo near Bari, Communists got the news in the middle of the night, raced in nightshirts and dressing gowns to a hasty rally where a speaker promised: "We Communists will have our headquarters at the White House! Washington shall be ours...