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...also a sort of unofficial foster parent for national Communist parties outside of Russia. Last year, in the French Communist organ Les Cahiers du Communisme, he administered a polemical spanking that unseated U.S. Communist Boss Earl Browder. Last week he turned his admonitory attention to Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti...
Later that day Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian 'Communist Party, said: "We have never done anything and will never do anything against the Catholic religion, which is the religion of the great majority of the Italian people. When'we fought the Germans and Fascists we also fought for the liberty of the church and religion." The Vatican did not question Togliatti's motives. To do so would, no doubt, be less than Christian...
...Edged Sickle. Italian Communism is a two-edged sickle: 1) the Party, as represented by longheaded, Comintern-trained Palmiro Togliatti, Minister of Justice in Parri's coalition cabinet; 2) L'Apparato (The Apparatus), a secret organization, set up for strikes and possible violent action. L'Apparato is reputedly bossed by Italy-born, Russia-naturalized Ruggiero Grieco...
...Democrats, four Christian Democrats, one Independent. The Premier was also Minister of the Interior (in charge of the police). Vice Premier Pietro Nenni, Socialist leader, was Minister for the Constituent Assembly; a vociferous antimonarchist, he would organize the election that would decide the monarchy's fate. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was Minister of Justice, a strategic perch for supervising the purge. But it was a restive coalition...
Pietro Nenni, Italy's No. 1 Socialist, had a bit of political luck last week-he was arrested. Nenni and his friend Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's No. 1 Communist, were given permission by the Allies to visit the North, on condition that neither addressed outdoor meetings. Street signs reading "We Want Nenni," "We Want Togliatti" strongly tempted them. Before long, both succumbed. Promptly. Allied military police led Nenni (who holds no Government office) off to jail. Togliatti (who is Italy's Vice Premier) was not arrested...