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...long, villagers, priests, Cabinet ministers, Senators, and children from a nearby orphanage thronged the mountain road to pass by the wooden bed where lay the gaunt old figure. Pope Pius sent personal condolences; so did Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti. U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, interrupting a U.S. vacation, flew back to Rome to represent President Eisenhower at the funeral. Said she: "America lost a good friend and Italy a great statesman...
...been doing business with Iron Curtain countries and paying a fat rake-off (estimated by Scelba at $45 to $50 million a year) to the Italian Communist treasury. Presumably the investigation will be followed by measures to stop, if not the trade, at least the rake-offs, thus depriving Palmiro Togliatti's comrades of a fat revenue source. ¶ Government seizure of property formerly owned by Mussolini's Fascists and seized by the Communists after the Allied liberation. Up to now, it has been allowed to stay in Red hands. Included in the property tentatively slated for seizure...
...party members as: "All Communist Senators without exception are required to be present at tomorrow's session." When the party line is not clear, L'Unità has a simple way of finding out what it is. The editors call on Italy's Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti, once editor of the paper and still its ultimate authority as well as its biggest shareholder. When Togliatti himself has not yet had the word from Moscow L'Unità is forced to wait, as it did when the "doctors' plot" exploded in Moscow...
...Fanfani." Close to 6 on a rainy afternoon, word got around that the two most dramatic antagonists in Italy, Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti and Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi, would meet in parliamentary combat. The galleries filled up and the chamber hushed for the performance of Italy's brilliant Red orator...
Against his lack of program and lack of action, the Communists seemed more and more the one group that knew what it wanted to do. Palmiro Togliatti's Communists are rich (among other funds, the party gets millions a year from their commercial monopoly as middlemen for all Italian trade with Eastern Europe); they are minutely organized and cleverly led, even able to turn to advantage such anti-Communist events as financial aid from the U.S. Example: a U.S. contract recently allowed a closed-down factory in Milan to reopen; because they had been shouting for its reopening...