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Palmiro Togliatti had listened with a thin smile flickering across his face. As Nenni finished, Togliatti threw his arms around him and they clinched in a cheek-kissing embrace...
Socialist Boss Pietro Nenni and Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti spoke. Nenni lashed out against the monarchy as the greatest supporter of Fascism, called on the Italian people to take up arms against the dangerous spirit of reaction it represented. There was a blizzard of paper scraps on each of which was written "Abasso la borghesia!" (Down with the bourgeoisie...
Italy last week was the new sick man of Europe, and growing daily sicker. Its No. 1 Socialist, Pietro Nenni, voiced the nation's anguish in an anguished plea: "The Allied Control Commission should get out, leave us Italians to administer our misery alone...
Shrewd Palmiro Togliatti, Russian-trained leader of Italy's Communists, and cautious Pietro Nenni, secretary general of the Socialists, sat down chummily, hatched an "alliance" of their two parties-a new version of the Popular Front. The surprise move gave them Italy's biggest bloc of voters, bigger than the important Christian Democrats (Catholic Centrist Party...
...reason) that the terms had been drafted at Casablanca, when no one foresaw Italy's quick collapse. They wanted Italy to have the full status of a willing cobelligerent and an ally against the Germans. Loudest of the outcries came from the Socialist Avanti's Editor Pietro Nenni. Wrote he: "We in Italy are finding how superficial, summary and empirical are Allied ideas of Europe's problems...