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...basic issue is whether the Soviet Union can tolerate defiance of Moscow policies without seeing the Communist world break up into old-style nation states, all Marxist but pursuing divergent policies. Italian Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti has already coined the word for this state of affairs: polycentrism...
Reporting blandly to the party's Central Committee, Red Chief Palmiro Togliatti backed Khrushchev, denounced Stalin's tyranny as "a terrible tragedy," but confessed himself puzzled that the name of Stalingrad had been changed, "because millions of people associate that name with the famous battle that was the turning point of World War II." Moscow, Togliatti added plaintively, "should take into account popular sentiment in capitalist countries and should not insist on what is not absolutely necessary...
...there were men whose hands are bloodied by countless executions, like Hungary's sad-eyed Janos Kadar and Argentina's fat Victorio Codovilla, who once was Stalin's top agent in Spain, and such party hacks as France's Maurice Thorez and Italy's Palmiro Togliatti, both symbols of failure from countries that, scarcely a decade ago, seemed on the brink of Communism...
...Kremlin's order: Italian Socialists, though they risked their lives to fight Fascism, were sabotaging world revolution and must be liquidated; the Communists must deliver the secret roster of Socialist leaders to the Fascist police. For days the two friends debated what to do. One of the men, Palmiro Togliatti, bowed to Moscow and with that act of trusty treachery began rising through the upper echelons to head the Italian Communist Party. The other, Ignazio Silone, refused and later left the party to write Fontamara and Bread and Wine, world-famed novels that incarnated both the plight of humble...
Though Italian Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti mustered thousands of mourners at the funeral of the five Communists killed in Reggio Emilia, the riots had served to rally non-Communists temporarily to the support of the Tambroni government. But there was little rejoicing among liberal Italians, who recognized the neo-Fascists as a constant source of similar trouble for the government. Wrote Pundit Enrico Mattei: "The Tambroni government cannot go while there is violence. But when the violence ends, let it go in favor of a more representative government stronger and better equipped to cope with sedition...