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Taller But Sadder. Hoping to capitalize on the divisions in non-Communist ranks, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti. whose Reds were the biggest gainers in last month's balloting (winning 25% of the vote), warned that "the first phase of an extremely acute and bitter" political era had opened, and demanded that Reds be brought into the Cabinet. Nenni, under heavy pressure from his onetime Red allies to push the center-left coalition further left, threatened to do just that. In advance of a crucial Socialist Party congress in July, Nenni declared that he would demand "more advanced positions...
...Reds promptly made their power felt in the balloting for presiding officers: for the first time in history, a woman, Maria Lisa Rodano, 42, was elected Chamber vice president. She is a Communist who insists she is a Roman Catholic as well and attends Mass on Sundays. Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti's cocky demand that Communists be admitted to the government was coldly refused...
Papal Pal. To bed indeed. Fanfani already had news of the massive gains of Palmiro Togliatti's Communists, who improved their position as the country's second largest party (after the Christian Democrats), won 25% of the entire nation's votes, and 26 new seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The Reds now hold a total of 166 of the Chamber's 630 places, compared with the Christian Democrats...
Under the shrewd leadership of aging (70) Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, the Reds have always taken care to balance their ideology against the fact that Italy is a Catholic nation. At one time they backed the monarchy; nowadays they even favor the capitalist Common Market. As a nation, Italy is less than a century old; first under the monarchy, then through the long night of Fascism, the country has had little time to accustom itself to democracy. Thus, to many Italians, Communism-or at least their brand of it-does not appear the fearful specter that it does in many...
...Sino-Soviet split was showing up elsewhere. At the Italian Communist Party meeting in Rome, a trio of Red Chinese visitors sat glowering while Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti-looking almost as chubby as Tito-delivered a four-hour attack on Chinese opposition to Moscow's peaceful-coexistence line. Next day Khrushchev's No. 2 man, Frol Kozlov, produced a bitter condemnation of Red China's "dangerous adventurism" in India...