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Threading his way through the thorns of Communist dialectic last week, Italian Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti gave the measure of how deeply the Khrushchev revelations had shaken party foundations in Italy. Stalin "committed many errors," purred red-eyed Palmiro, "but he also did many good things . . . This was the strange mistake made at the 20th Party Congress: to be silent about the merits of Stalin...
...first time in the history of the Italian Communist Party, Leader Palmiro Togliatti was caustically critical of the Moscow leadership, described Khrushchev's attack as "brutal and dangerous." Said another veteran Italian Red: "Khrushchev's speech was not Marxism ... it was a personal tirade intended to relieve his feelings after years of bullying." As criticism grew, Togliatti announced an extraordinary series of regional conferences for reorientation of his huge party (2,130,000 members). He told the extraordinary meeting of the 110-man Central Committee that the word must be spread gently: Italian Reds would resent having been...
Torn by the denigration-of-Stalin issue, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists lost more heavily than expected-several hundred thousand votes. But what Togliatti lost, his Socialist ally Pietro Nenni picked up. "It is like having a liter of wine and two bottles," said one former Communist cynically. "You may pour wine from one bottle to another, or back and forth as you like, but you still have the liter." One Italian voter in three was still voting the Communist line...
...years, Italy's 7,143 communes are electing new governments next Sunday. Though only municipal elections, they will be read as a political referendum on Premier Antonio Segni's year-old Christian Democratic government. Italy's biggest political guns, from Segni himself to the Communists' Palmiro Togliatti, scoured the country orating...
...speed with which the curtain of murderous secrecy was being torn from past Communist pretension was making fools of foreign Communist leaders. In Rome Palmiro Togliatti, facing a lethargic Italian Communist National Council meeting, swept his arms towards a picture of Stalin hanging on a marble column, shouted: "They say we have dethroned a saint. I say to them we have never had saints ... He has conquered his place in history ... as builder and defender of Socialist society...