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...Italy's first general-election campaign since 1948 went into the final week, two of the extremists' leaders, Communist Palmiro Togliatti and Monarchist Achille Lauro, took to their beds, white with exhaustion, but Premier Alcide de Gasperi, thinner and older (72) than either, seemed to gain strength. He abandoned his campaign train and took to the air, flying to Sardinia and Sicily to rally the voters...
...melting, musical tongue, and Italians traditionally make colorful orators, but De Gasperi is a rambling, unmusical speaker who can stretch a few scribbled notes into a 90-minute discourse. Italians are accustomed to the spectacular in politics -Garibaldi and his red-shirted 1,000; the Blackshirts marching on Rome; Palmiro Togliatti's Reds tearing up piazzas. Alcide de Gasperi disdains the theatrical and the violent, speaks softly, listens forbearingly, sits out crises patiently, and acts unhurriedly with an extraordinary instinct for timing...
...extreme left: Palmiro Togliatti's Communists, Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling "Socialists" and their splinter-party allies. Strength at the last election: 31% (but believed by the experts to have gained some strength since...
...death, and led France's straggly delegation to Moscow for the funeral. Somehow, as he climbed into a chartered Polish airplane at Le Bourget, he seemed the symbol of what his French party had become-soft and flabby, and sunk in gloom. To the south, Italy's Palmiro Togliatti hastily scraped together a delegation, stuffed long woolen underwear and his Russian fur cap into a suitcase of a type the Italians call Americana, and hurried off to Moscow...
...separate amendments and wanted to debate them all. Night after night they sent a steady stream of speakers forward to keep parliament in session until dawn; when larynxes failed, they used fists, chair legs and football rushes. Once, as a vote approached on an important maneuver, Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti deployed a cordon of Communist deputies around the ballot box to keep others from voting. One by one, pro-government deputies managed to break through to drop small wooden balls (white for yes, black for no) into the box. Infuriated, the Reds tossed all the voting equipment into...