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From his "rest home" in Moscow came word that French Communist Leader Maurice Thorez, partly paralyzed from a stroke two months ago, was able to walk a few steps without help. From Rome it was announced that Italy's Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, recovering from a brain operation, had boarded a train for Moscow and some of the same salubrious Soviet atmosphere...
...Also seriously ailing, Italy's Communist Chief Palmiro Togliatti last week left Rome's Salus Hospital after a twelve-day stay for a brain operation, headed north for a rest. Notably, Moscow sent no flowers, no words of sympathy. In the well-ordered world of Communist protocol, such silence reverberates like an explosion. But only the rashest observers predicted a change in the leadership or policies of Italy's 2,500,000-member Communist Party, largest in the West...
Italy's No. 1 Red Palmiro Togliatti, who barely escaped death in 1948 when a Sicilian gunman pumped three bullets into him, was severely injured when the driver of his fast-moving grey Aprilia sedan swerved to avoid a fruit truck, crashed into an embankment and overturned twice...
...otherwise simple but forced folk tales, which have gone into seven editions in Italy. Author Guareschi is a magazine editor who spent much of the war in German concentration camps and has now been singled out as a class enemy by no less a figure than Italian Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti. Guareschi is a whole imagination away from the "Italian James Thurber" that his publishers hopefully label him, but The Little World is a dual Book-of-the-Month Club selection, which ought to please them just as much...
Around the chamber, Italy's legislators sat tense and silent as the solemn Premier asked formal approval of his new, slightly reshuffled cabinet. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti beat a nervous finger tattoo on his desktop. The party's L'Unita that morning had threatened: "The opposition will know how to ram De Gasperi's lies and provocations down his throat...