Word: palmiro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long career of violence and intrigue, Italy's Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti has proved himself a man of many lives. He escaped a Fascist firing squad in 1922 an instant before the rifles went off. A raid by comrades rescued him from a Spanish death sentence in 1939. He survived three assassins' bullets in 1948. Luck and a surgeon who bored four holes in Togliatti's skull saved him after a severe automobile crash...
...Stalingrad. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti could do nothing about his defeat on the farms. But he had to do something about his defeat in the factories. He hastily assembled the Central Committee and announced a "critical inquiry" of Communist union policy. In an attempt to check the rebellion with a show of strength, the Communists picked Genoa, where their power in the unions is almost undisputed, and succeeded in all but closing down the port...
...Revenge," Italy's late King Victor Emmanuel III once said, "is a dish that should be eaten cold." Palmiro Togliatti, kingpin of Italy's Communists, followed this royal precept last week when it came time to punish a rebel in his court...
...representative in Italy, Moscow-trained Comrade Secchia had long possessed authority, secret dossiers and generous allocations of funds with which to build a personal machine within the party. But at the national party conference a fortnight ago, he rashly got himself identified with party diehards, who want to discard Palmiro Togliatti's "soft" policy for tough methods (TIME, Jan. 24). Because Moscow has decreed there should be no public quarrel now, Comrade Togliatti waited his chance to serve a cold dish to Pietro Secchia...
...conference, he summoned party brass into a private meeting to consider disciplinary measures against the rebels, Pietro Secchia among them. Some demanded expulsion from the party, but Togliatti talked Secchia into suppressing his demands for sterner policies in return for a promise of no reprisals against the rebels. Then, Palmiro Togliatti strutted back into public view to pretend, by sarcasm and ridicule, that such a thing as dissent had never existed. "Comic . . . ridiculous . . . grotesque," said Togliatti. "These reports only show how stupid our enemies are. We are glad of this because stupid enemies are easier to fight than intelligent enemies...