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...wheat fields around San Severo, on the spur of the Italian boot, have long bred Communists. Working for as little as 64? a day on land they could never buy, the San Severini were eager listeners to Communist organizers, who promised "The land will be given to you when Palmiro [Togliatti] is Premier of Italy...
...only 27 traitors you will not sell your souls to the Americans," he said. This was hardly an answer to a rugged young peasant named Matteo Pistillo, nicknamed Spaccatutto (worldbeater) and long known for his unswerving devotion to the Communist cause. "All right," he cried, "but when will Palmiro become our Premier? It may be true what the comrade said, but it is still truer that today I see the land reform." Pistillo had heard of other defections from the Communist Party in southern Italy. By last month the reform had given farms to 146 families around San Severo...
...Rome, while waiting near the Chamber of Deputies to pick up Italy's Communist boss, Palmiro Togliatti, Chauffeur Reclus Monari suddenly became the richest Communist chauffeur in the country. He was named winner of a 54 million lire ($86,400) football pool. Said Monari: "I'll certainly give several millions to the party and a handsome gift to Comrade Togliatti...
...Scalfaro stood up in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and made a motion: let the House sit seven days a week to speed debate on the government's electoral reform bill. Up popped Socialist Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni to cry: "The majority is attempting a coup." Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, discarding his usual pose of blue-serge respectability, shouted: "This isn't a Parliament. It is a bivouac of priests." From the right came the reply: "Go back to your Soviet Parliament, Togliatti. Your game will be up there." The fight...
Next day, in case anyone should think that Nenni's effort did not have full Kremlin backing, Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti, in his best double-breasted blue suit, told the deputies that Europe must choose between "a strong and friendly Russia in a prodigious moral and material ascendancy, which offers peace and well being to the entire world, and a barbarous America which openly prepares for war . . . The Italian government, if it is not completely blind, should establish profitable contacts with the Soviet bloc...