Word: palmiro
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...Garbage went uncollected. milk undelivered, newspapers unpublished and tourists unsolicited by the prostitutes in Villa Borghese park. At his summer palace of Castel Gandolfo. Pope Pius XII rested for a couple of days; so did Premier Alcide de Gasperi and most of his political friends and enemies. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti spent the weekend hiking in the Alps with a collection of village Communists...
...Scelba law passed, the temporary alliance of Demo-Christian and Communist ended too. Last week, following a roaring attack by Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti on visiting NATO Chief Matthew Ridgway, De Gasperi jumped to his feet, turned toward the Reds and said: "Remember this! As long as I remain in this place, I shall not recognize that you have a right to prepare a revolution in Italy. If present laws are not sufficient to curb you, we shall make new ones." In other words, one down, one more...
...Rome correspondent for Pravda, stout, blonde Olga Cecetkina, 50, was like no other foreign reporter in Italy. She traveled up & down the country making pro-Communist speeches, filed stores to Moscow that were often pure fiction. Even when she reported speeches by Italian Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti, said the Italian government, she added declarations that Togliatti never made. According to Correspondent Cecetkina, Togliatti said: "The only leaders we obey are Stalin and his associates." Actually, even the government agreed that Togliatti is too smart a politician to say anything like that to an Italian audience. Last week the Italian government...
...Reds' strategy seemed to be to sneak into power. In Rome, clad in his very best grey flannels as he received Western foreign correspondents for the first time since 1948, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was at his most disingenuous. Genially he told reporters that all Communists want is peace and work, land and bread. In the southern provinces the Reds, to conceal themselves, were designating their party tickets with such symbols as a resurrected Christ, a St. Anthony...
Italy's Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti. who was pinked three times by an assassin in 1948, got a token of esteem from the Skoda steel works: a bulletproof Skoda limousine. Such a gift, said the beaming Togliatti, "*is proof of the industrial ability and excellent workmanship of Czechoslovakia, working...freely to put out cars for the common man at a time when capitalist industry is concentrating on brutal rearmament...